when i was in 12th grade and we had our chemistry class going on, our sir asked us which chapter we wanted to start next, and so when he gave us a couple of options, i suggested that we start with something else instead, and he replied with (1/10)
"kuch aur karna hai toh ghar jaake apni maa se roti banana seekh (if you want to do something else, go home and learn how to make bread from your mom)" and i'm not lying when i say every boy in the class laughed. EVERY. SINGLE. BOY. so please before you come here trying to (2/10)
tell women how there's no need for feminism, maybe you should think about the number of times you've witnessed casual sexism or been the one making sexist statements, and while you might say that you're a "good" guy for not raping, violating, molesting, or harassing women, (3/10)
maybe you should try and think about all the times you thought a girl wasn't capable of doing something just because of her gender, or that just because she's a woman, she's too weak or too emotional, or only belongs in the kitchen, or how a guy could ever lose to her (4/10)
when your ego gets hurt by women crying about the fact that men make them feel so unsafe, instead of thinking about how little that statement actually affects you, can you for once stop to think about how women ON A DAILY BASIS have to go through so much just to make sure (5/10)
they aren't deprived of their basic right to live? to not be violated? to be treated equally? to be considered more than just a sexual object created to satisfy men? to be seen as humans and not objects? do you understand the amount of discrimination women face everyday? (6/10)
do you understand the toll it takes on you mentally, emotionally, and physically? it becomes impossible to trust a man again however nice they seem. and your statements of "I'm not like the others, you can trust me" help no one. NO. ONE. because if you were to almost drown (7/10)
in a pool once, wouldn't you always be afraid of the water even though you know this is not the same pool? the reason why we're crying out loud is because change is not taking place. every single day we're seeing more and more cases of women being treated like they don't (8/10)
deserve to live. all we feminists are asking for is men to raise their voices against sexism. we don't want a gender war, we want all genders to unite against patriarchy and sexism. if you're a "good" guy like you say you are, then start conversations with your guy friends (9/10)
about treating women right, respecting them, not calling them r*ndi, b*tch, wh*re, or c*nt, when they don't get what they want, not stereotyping them, not undermining them, not talking over them or mansplaining, not joking about rape or gang rape, not objectifying them. (10/10)
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