factualfeminist:

factualfeminist:

I’ve made a post like this before but fuck it.

I am so sick and goddamned tired of being a feminist.

It feels like the barrage of the patriarchy on the rights of anyone that’s not a white man is a ceaseless never ending siege.

I just want it to be over. For us all to get along. For everyone to be safe and for no one to face discrimination. (Unless you’re a brony. You all deserve discrimination. Go outside and feel the sun. Weirdos.)

I’m only 23 and don’t see this happening in my life time. I don’t want my children to inherit this battle but my heart of hearts knows they will.

I am so privileged and so lucky in this world to be a middle class white woman with a college degree and a job living in the USA. I see the violence and hatred women of color face simply for being that color and it sickens me.

I see poor women unable to feed their children because the patriarchy doesn’t see the need to pay them a living wage but demonizes them for needing food stamps.

I am so tired of seeing the violence and ignorance the lgbtqa people face.
Maybe I’m internalizing things too much. But it really doesn’t matter. Nothing I can do or say will change the status quo. But we all can if we work together.

And people are banding together.

And that’s what gives me hope.

Bringing this back, but with some changes.

I’m 25 now and we are running the risk of having a president that will erase all the positive changes we’ve made in the last 60 years and bring us back to the Dark Ages of American Human Rights. 

Ferguson happened. Racial issues are continued to be demonized by the American media and are denied by white people as a whole. 

I feel like racial inequality should be the first priority of the modern feminist movement, but we have Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift spouting white feminist garbage and it’s swallowed up by the masses. But Beyonce and Nicki Minaj are ignored for their feminism. Or their ‘promiscuity’ is pointed out and it is dismissed.

We still have so far to go. And I am tired.