ladyislingering

I wish I had the time and patience to read this entire thread, but I do believe that feminism is important; the patriarchy is real and a threat to all genders. I don't like how the word "feminist" is such a dirty, unsettling word to people. I think that's ridiculous and I'm sort of ashamed of the extremists, as they make anyone who is concerned with gender equality (remember - men can be feminists, too; feminism is NOT solely about the empowerment of women or to suggest that cissexual women are more important than other genders, but simply the fact that there is a serious problem caused by social norms put in place by patriarchal thinking).

I believe that someday we'll live in a world where women (all living people who identify as female) aren't put into a little box (figuratively) and told "this is what you have to do/this is what you're worth/this is what you have to be" or made to feel like they'll never amount to as much as someone who identifies as male.

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