Everyday I’m Grateful I’m Not Religious/forced To Be Religious. I Love The Freedom That Comes With

I feel so awful for all the young girls being forced into religion and forced to wear a hijab. imagine being born and being told your whole life that you must cover yourself, must hide your body, because your body is inherently sexual - you are inherently sexual and must be hidden just because you were born a girl.

Conservatives cosplaying as Christians when faced with someone who actually follows the teachings of Jesus Christ:

I'll stop saying faggot when gay men stop saying "bitch" and "cunt" because they think their love of men somehow gives them proximity to women

That part of the Bible that talks about women going through painful childbirth due to Eve eating the apple is so obviously man made. Men saw our ability to survive such an ordeal and really got so offended they needed a way to insult our strength. Real pathetic behavior. I'll admit I was raised in a Christian community, and I still believe there's something spiritual out there, but the patriarchal manipulation is so fucking obvious. Like to me, there could very possibly be a god, but not the one that men made. The fear mongering of "you're all going to hell!!! Unless you listen to me~" is so foul I canttttt

I love to see the general public finally waking tf up

Guess what group has been talking about all these things for years and was demonized, shamed and threatend for it 🤔

it feels like everyone i speak to has some internalized misogyny

once you start noticing how casually misogyny is incorporated into society theres literally NO going back. look at our insults! theres so many words to degrade womyn just existing the same as men.

bitch, slut, whore, cunt are just used to insult us for being confident/sexually active.

even passive terms like crazy cat lady and calling confident young girls 'bossy' ARE contributing to this!

the first step to unlearning internalized misogyny is learning to stop using terms like these.

one of the best things you can do for yourself as a woman is refuse to see your own suffering as virtuous. like no, the fact that you’re practically working yourself to death because your husband is useless and your basically a married single mom with an extra kid isn’t proof you’re a good mother.

no, the fact that you’re willing to let your boyfriend hit you during sex and call you names doesn’t make you a “cool girl”.

no, the fact that you pour hours of your time you’ll never get back and so much money into altering your appearance solely on an aesthetic level so you can be a “baddie” or whatever isnt a flex.

your life is yours, a solid sized chunk of us live very privileged lives as women where we’re allowed to obtain education, live independently, etc yet so many of us still actively make ourselves suffer is so infuriating, confusing, and disheartening. i want better for all of us. every single one of us.

When we criticize hypersexualization of women in media there's always someone to say shit like "ohhh so you're not comfortable with women having sex?" or "so you don't think that women should be able to discuss sex just like men are?" And it's all so tonedeaf?! It's like they can't even understand the problem. Men do not have to be naked and being sexually suggestive to convince anyone to buy their music, to acknowledge their talent. Everyone's allowed to do whatever they want to do in their private lives, women wanting to have sex is not taboo (?)

But this is a systemic problem. Ask yourself WHY there's an imbalance, why do female performers' only chance in the industry of pop culture is to sell a hypersexual image. That's objectification. And yes, that objectification has everything to do with patriarchy and porn industry and prostitution. Are female performers being free if they're only succeeding when naked, exposed, objectified? I don't think so. This is a very specific kind of "freedom", there's very real consequences to those who do not fit to a rigorous standard. Open your eyes.

I believe all religion is made up by men to oppress women. if that offends you dni 💗