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Why is feminism so important for me today? A thread from w a lot of personal experiences.
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tw// sexual assault, harassment, catcalling etc.
(please read till the end)
tw// sexual assault, harassment, catcalling etc.
-I was 12 y/o assaulted by close family member. I didn& #39;t even realize till v late tf happened. Worst part? Now that I wanna talk about it, all I hear is"why you talking about it only now?","do you have proof?". Our first thought is literally victim blaming, how fucked up is that?
-I was 14 y/o when I was constantly harassed in school by teachers for things like the length of my skirt, the way I tucked my shirt in it bcs a shirt too loose is fancy& hence not allowed, for the way I carried my hair, for the the length of hair.
- To top it all, teachers literally used to check all the girls physically if they& #39;re wearing shorts or not, they even policed the color of the shorts. YES ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY FRISK OUR BODY and by our we mean all of middle school+high school girls.
-Despite all of this if anything happened w a girl in school the authorities simply blamed only the girl and her problematic behaviour, a girl from my school was sexually assaulted by her classmate and guess who was expelled? Hint: NOT the guy.
-Growing up, causal sexism never really left my way. Be it the sneaky "change your clothes bcs uncle is coming" or the "don& #39;t reply anything" to catcalling or the simple notion of girls by default having to take responsibility of home affairs. And I& #39;m really fckn tired of this.
-As if all this isn& #39;t enough, random guys on the internet trying to police what kind of tweets/pictures I can post on my own fucking account to such a point where either I& #39;ll have to delete everything and go private or simply fear getting doxxed or worse, bid on by strangers.
-So no, Feminism is not sth I believe in to be cool or bcs of political ideologies. It& #39;s NOT A LEFTIST THING ffs. It& #39;s a movement I & many others resonate w bcs it focuses on the abolition of such patriarchal norms and getting womxn the respect and freedom they never really got.
@ all womxn out there who suffered sth similar, all my love+support for u, y& #39;all are strong& I stan u. @ all guy moots: take a moment &ponder over all this& next time you try to bash feminism, stop. Think twice. Be a good ally &fckn try to understand us for once, just fckn once!
