The other thing I'm going to point out on this is more on general terms; it is hard being a young woman and it is really hard if you feel that you don't fit in. It sucks if you open up social media & you're bombarded with content about how who *you* are is just terrible. https://twitter.com/surfacingwater/status/1311185913016442880

It sucks if you feel out of place next to your peers & everywhere you go you are told how you can somehow be better or do better or 'just fit in' but you feel like you don't. It sucks if social media is full of it, MSM is full of it, movies and TV shows are full of it.

So here's magazine covers from when I was a kid and looking at them all makes the child me hate the world even more than I already did because can't relate, sounds like shit, hate my life

hahahaha i want to set fire to it all

thanks for this memory lane

But if you're told endlessly that you're shit, and who you are is shit, you will start to get angry.

There is a difference between telling a young woman that who she is is perfectly fine, she doesn't have to be or do anything she doesn't want to do, and...

There are people who simply see that sense of vulnerability where you are rightfully pissed off because if you aren't a 'cool girl', they'll seize an opportunity to just target that and take a frustration that, in actuality, many women do share with you - and distort it.

Normal people don't see isolation or frustration & see it as either something to manipulate OR bully. Normal people don't... really care what you do if you're happy.

Normal people don't see loneliness as a weapon, nor rightful anger as a weapon for hatred.

Why shouldn't you be angry about rape and sexual assault and low conviction rates, or how victims are treated? Everyone should be angry about that. But I am angry at a society that doesn't care, and a prosecution system that fails victims.

Why shouldn't you be angry if someone tells you to wear something that you don't want to wear? What the fuck business is it of anyone else's what you do? But my anger is at the entitlement of anyone who feels they deserve any right to tell me what I should do.

Why shouldn't you be angry if your worth always feels like it's down to your perceived attractiveness? It's bullshit and you absolutely should be angry about it. Why shouldn't you be angry over anyone making any comment on your body? Again, entitlement.

But hate movements don't work like that. Hate movements take rightful anger, justified frustration, and fuel them to unconscionable grounds.

What you are actually angry about is not what the movement cares about. You aren't what that movement cares about.

And at some point you'll give up parts of yourself that you believe in - opinions or even actual friends - because that movement will tell you it is the 'right thing to do'. But they will be replaced by a new community, an openly radicalised community.

Regardless of what the pipeline is, you will be encouraged that you're a free thinker - but certain thoughts are bad and almost DEFINITELY certain people are bad. You'll never really know why but it's just that they're bad. Usually to the 'movement'.

But in reality maybe some younger women just needed to be told that;
- there's nothing wrong with them, who you are is fine
- you don't have to be like everyone else
- yes, being young and female can fucking suck

without anything expected in return

My point in all of this is that whilst I think women are fully responsible for their actions (and running off to join fascist networks is pretty yikes) - for those who are being dripfed through a pipeline because they're a bit lonely & angry: you aren't a total anomaly.

My point is that you don't have to be like every other woman and you don't have to be like what the media says because that's just not how it really is. And these "communities" should tell you that.

Who you are IS enough, but that's said without expecting anything in return.

Full disclaimer: at no point in this thread can any of this be subject to interpretation by any kind of radicalisation of young women to extreme right propaganda. None of this is being written in metaphorical language whatsoever.