At a family dinner, my uncle started complaining that menstrual products were a waste of wood because pads contain cellulose, which comes from trees. He kept insisting women in the old days survived without them anyway. My little sister looked at him and said, “Actually, your birth certificate was a waste of paper.” The table went completely silent.
My uncle really got triggered and annoyed when I said, ‘Men are Trash.’ My aunt stopped and asked him, ‘When you’re warning our daughter not to be out late, to share her location when she’s booking a cab, and to be careful!! who are you warning her about? Men, isn’t it?’
He went silent and nodded peacefully.
I think the hardest part of the political climate right now is realizing how many people around me are actually evil. Not stupid. Not misinformed. Just blatantly enjoying and relishing in the suffering of other human beings.
it's not "girls support girls" it's "girls PROTECT girls" because i could hate a girl with my whole being but i would never NEVER leave her alone in a room with a man she feels unsafe with