gurl power

it's easy for me to become really annoyed with american feminists because their idea of furthering women's rights solely surrounds the topic of abortion- but there is SO MUCH MORE to accomplish.

and those feminists annoy me because they've made it so that 'women's rights' are a joke to most people, especially men- young men. we haven't the slightest idea what it's like to be treated like NOTHING and regarded as a mere shell for the furthering of childish men's pride. i can't imagine it. it tears me up inside. the mere thought of being taken advantage of- because i know i can be taken advantage of solely because i am a woman for numerous reasons- drives me nuts. it makes me grind my teeth, makes my stomach churn, it brings up hate directed at no one in particular, just.. men. and everyone who refuses to take the subject seriously.

rape jokes, wife-beating jokes, women-in-the-kitchen jokes are just really old to me now. the older i get and the more exposed i am to the reality of how little power females have over men (a lot of it having to do with our own decisions) the more bored, annoyed, unamused and sickened i am by those who do find that kind of humor funny. it's funny to them because to them it's not real- it's something so horrible that we can make light of it cos it seems so far away from our lives that we don't see such serious persecution and discrimination in. i understand that. but really now i can't hear something like that and not think of the women/girls i know, and the ones i don't know who have had to experience real hopelessness because of their sex.

it's so sad and terrible and ignored and aldga;sldkhf