just maria

Makeup and acrylic nails and feminine clothes and high heels are so restricting! you can't touch your face, you can't blow your nose, you can't cry, you can't kiss your partner, you can't go out in rain, you can't sit however you want, you can't move freely, you can't walk or dance painlessly, you can't even open a can soda or type a message on your phone without having to develop a special technique for it. You can't even attempt to play a string instrument. What's the point of going outside if you can't do anything? You are so much more than something to be looked at and admired. You are human. Allow yourself to live.

I feel like trump looking likely to beat a more competent and qualified female candidate twice, both being the only times a woman has been a nominated presidential candidate, is a real blow to the psyche for all women and girls in the U.S.. It seems to deliver a message of "no matter how put-together, professional, and smart you are, you will always lose to the dumbest, loudest man in the room."

"Gen Z is progressive" No they are not. Millennials began the process of running progressive politics into the ground and Gen Z finished the job. Never has the progressive politic been so weak, diffused, nonsensical and spineless. Progressives have allowed themselves to become decimated by capitalism and astroturfed by corporate entities. The would-be young freedom fighters see progressive ideas as nothing more than a resource to exploit. Called upon only for narcissistic indulgence, to one-up others, gain social capital or to protect a morally bankrupt level of depravity, mental fragility and learned helplessness. At this point, I don't even think Gen Z could make something like Obama 08 happen. In 2008 feminism was an electrifying lighting rod movement with mass class consciousness, gay rights were on fire, racial consciousness was soaring rooted firmly in sensible principles. All that is gone. What we're left with is annoying caricature. Progressive politics used to have real substance. Now it's just a joke. A meme. The thought leaders are cash-grabbing clowns with no values. The hard right swing is happening because progressive have no soul and stand firm and united on nothing.

yeah, I like romance. but you know what? I like women realizing their value and leaving trash men 1000x more

No bro sorry. I don't think it's cool or cunty that zendaya was trained to wear heels that she said were painful since she was 14. Sorry bro. I just don't.

why use makeup and high heels to strike fear into the hearts of men when just existing as an autonomous person with your own thoughts and feelings is the most terrifying thing any man can imagine

Show a man your leg hair, they’ll run screaming.

Talk about your period and they have a meltdown

Men will ignore leg hair and menstrual blood if they have unfettered sexual access but thoughts and feelings and knowledge of your own is far more frightening than hairy, bloody, subservience.