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Misogyny is explicitly, visibly incentivized and rewarded. You can watch it self-perpetuate in front of your eyes. I
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Like most fat people who've been lectured about diet and exercise since childhood, I actually know an inordinate amount about nutrition and fitness.
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We were just so bad at being together. He felt as guilty as I felt pathetic, and it made us closer, for a while.
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You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard, administered
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my body, my work, my voice, my confidence, my power, my determination to demand a life as potent, vibrant, public, and complex as any man's.
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but they tell you that if you hate yourself hard enough, you can grab just a tail feather or two of perfection.
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The fact that abortion is still a taboo subject means that opponents of abortion get to define it however suits them best.
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Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate.
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Maybe women would finally be considered fully formed human beings, instead of off-brand men with defective genitals. Maybe
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In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you
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Aham and I weren't getting back together-we swore we weren't, we couldn't-but when I wasn't looking, he had become my family anyway.
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Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.
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The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.
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I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.
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I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities.
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You only have to look back five years to see a different world, and, by extension, tangible proof that culture is ours to shape, if we try. Obviously
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Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.
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The real scam is that being bones isn't enough either. The game is rigged. There is no perfection.
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