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- practical actions that can be taken to fight internalized misogyny

#1 - Stop shaving

#2 - Switch to the woman-made alternative

#3 - Sensible shoes

#4 - Embrace your period

#5 - Burn the bra

#6 - Let your inner “old spinster” shine

#7 - Look at your body

#8 - We are women

#9 - Praise the mustache

#10 - Food is not the enemy

#11 - Dump him

#12 - You too can kill god

#13 - No is a full sentence

#14 - Live make-up free

#15 - Be loud

#16 - Touch yourself

#17 - Do you need a partner?

#18 - Trim your nails

#19 - Name it.

#20 - Cultivate your strength.

#21 - Comfortable clothing.

#22 - The rules don’t matter.

#23 - Don’t apologise for existing.

#24 - Stop using porn.

#25 - Ditch the misogynistic slurs.

#26 - Stop being your own voyeur.

#27 - Learn from other women.

#28 - Don’t justify yourself.

#29 - Let yourself age.

My day is over whenever I decide.

I am choosing peace over punishment

I am choosing seeds of self-care, -love, and -discipline, over self-abandonment.

I am making better, stronger choices every day—and it shows

I survived another day and my body and mind deserve rest, no matter what it takes.

It can be difficult, but I am still doing everything I can to make that happen.

I am showing up for myself right now by taking deep breaths

[inhale for four/exhale for six, x3]

I have done enough today.

Some days I will do more, some days I will do less. But today, it was enough.

This deception / reversal is so deep that women - even feminists - are intimidated into self-deception, becoming the only self-described oppressed who are unable to name their oppressor, referring instead to vague 'forces', 'rules', 'stereotypes', 'constraints', 'attitudes', 'influences'.

This list could go on. The point is that no agent is named - only abstractions."

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

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