Tag: -_-

factualfeminist:

factualfeminist:

Iā€™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 thatā€™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 youā€™re a brony. You all deserve discrimination. Go outside and feel the sun. Weirdos.)

Iā€™m only 23 and donā€™t see this happening in my life time. I donā€™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 doesnā€™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 Iā€™m internalizing things too much. But it really doesnā€™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 thatā€™s what gives me hope.

Bringing this back, but with some changes.

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

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

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 itā€™s swallowed up by the masses. But Beyonce and Nicki Minaj are ignored for their feminism. Or theirĀ ā€˜promiscuityā€™ is pointed out and it is dismissed.

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

jannahthoughts:

Itā€™s important to know that hijab is banned in schools in most of the european countries, such as france, belgium, switzerland etc. Millions of girls have to take their hijab off everyday in order to have access to education, and I am one of them. Please spread this as much as possible, it has become so normal here that I feel like a fool for even mentioning it, but Iā€™m pretty sure it goes against the human rights. This senseless law has been on since 2004 and pretends that all the students have to be ā€œequalā€ and it is prohibited to show that you belong to any religion, any religious sign must be set aside. However, most of us have to take our hijab off in schools where you can clearly see a christmas tree or a christian cross. ā€œYeah but itā€™s not the sameā€, they say. Tell me about double standards. I pray for days when we donā€™t have to chose between religion and education.