Please consider donating to Callie! She is fighting stage 4 cancer, and as this is going on, her parents are facing homophobia and lesbophobia from people who could be helping.

Here is her gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/tinybutmighty17

Me, on the outside looking at this relationship.

- 65% to 95% of those in prostitution were sexually assaulted as children.

 - 70% to 95% were physically assaulted in prostitution 

- 60% to 75% were raped in prostitution 

- 75% of those in prostitution have been homeless at some point in their lives. 

- 85% to 95% of those in prostitution want to escape it, but have no other options for survival. 

- 68% of 854 people in strip club, massage, and street prostitution in 9 countries met criteria for post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. 

- 80% to 90% of those in prostitution experience verbal abuse and social contempt which adversely affect them. 

Also, the ideal wording for a 911 call after someone has threatened to kill themselves is that the person themselves has announced their intention to kill themselves, or said they were going to kill themselves, something like that. “I suspect that they’re going to kill themself” is subjective and vague; “they have said that they are going to kill themself” is a factual statement that communicates useful information about their stated intentions, and if there’s any suspicion that the person is being dishonest about those intentions as a manipulation tactic, it preserves, documents, and centers their dishonesty and releases you from the responsibility for sorting out the person’s true intentions.

and now we have artists like ariana grande, nicki minaj, fifth harmony, daya, etc (this isn’t a callout post for them i don’t care about them as individuals i’m just commenting on a trend in pop culture perpetrated by the music industry) who put out music with feminist sentiments but absolutely no evidence of actively rebelling against societal expectations for women. “i don’t need boys i don’t need to be pretty i don’t need to be sexy” performed in scantily clad clothing with makeup sponsored by perfume and makeup companies is proof that capitalistic pressure has kind of destroyed the rebellious nature of the feminist movement.

so now we have a generation of girls raised on the internet convinced that performing femininity and caking their natural face in makeup in order to conform to unrealistic standards of beauty, placing their worth in their physical appearance inherently by paying money in order to appease some made up standard of what is acceptable for women, and they’ve convinced themselves that this, this conformity of expectation of feminist for women, is inherently feminist?

like it sucks like you guys know feminism is a counteractive movement right? like you know to be feminist is to rebel right? it’s not enough to consume pretty, neat, but wholly hypocritical ideals of feminism. it’s lazy. we have a generation of girls who want to adhere to expectations for women, who want to become that ideal that men have constructed, but now because they “reclaimed” it, that’s feminist?

like no sorry you Can do those things you Can put on makeup and shave and look pretty and girl you Can but don’t pretend that’s feminist it’s literally not. you’re not helping feminism the commodification of feminism is not helpful. men are not upset by you saying “the future is female” when you still look pretty and pink and non-threatening. we aren’t liberated by expectation just because you are now accepting of it. feminism is not complacency.

also like women today who love makeup And feminism mocking gnc women sound exactly like men in the 70s who protested feminism on the basis that it makes women “man hating lesbians” so congrats?

It is essential to go to therapy and take medication if there’s such that works for you. Because it won’t numb you but instead it will enable you to function and THEN create more.

Sure it’s not the same than what it would be without the meds but let’s be honest. Would you rather feel good about yourself and create from a positive point of view or rather be creative with a possibly unstable, dark and even lethal state of mind that sees death as a solution to even the tiniest problem?

You know what my mother tells me? She says I don’t need feminism because I should be glad I’m born in an urban city of Pakistan. She says, at least I wasn’t born in a rural area where girls are married off to men twice their age. That things could always be worse.

And our house maid, Shabana, who was married to her uncle at 15 and, at 18, has 2 children, she doesn’t even know what feminism is. She was told by her father that she should be glad her husband doesn’t beat her and hasn’t thrown tehzaab (acid) at her. That things could always be worse.

But women in the West really don’t need it lol.

‘My struggles trying to find clothes with pockets are just as bad as those women who get tortured and murdered just for being women’.