“Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable. A woman who says ‘hey, I think there’s a problem here’ is being ‘negative.’ A woman who doesn’t smile while she’s being harassed is ‘humourless.’ A woman who prefers to stay focused on tasks is a ‘cold bitch.’ Significant gendering is involved here; women have an obligation to look and act a certain way and when they don’t, they need to be hassled until they do.”
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Unknown (via grrl-meat)
i want to print this out and give this to my mother.
(via theoceanandthesky)
i think we internalize a lot of this too, and stop ourselves from speaking up. but we don’t have to.
(Source: daughterofzami, via theoceanandthesky)
