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Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)

I hate when people claim that women are crazy or complicated or don’t know what they want because fuck you. When a woman is vocal about her opinions, desires, feelings, you call her a bitch or crazy or hysterical. Women have been taught that the only way to communicate while maintaining their physical and emotional safety is to be indirect.

(via pompadoursandpincurls)

i feel like i have to filter my feelings somehow at all times. i made someone cry a few weeks ago at school. i didn’t even insult him. i was expressing a critique about his art. at art school. when the guys do it, they’re informed and ‘probably right.’ when the women do it, we’re crazy overachievers. i find myself having to say, ‘i mean, maybe it’s just me, but…’ or ‘well, this is just my opinion…’ all the time. why am i afraid to say what i really think when no one else seems to be?

(via greenstate)

every time I think I’ve made progress something like this pops up and I think of all the times I undermine myself before I event start talking..

(via callousandstrange)

I do this all the time. I obsess over every word when sending a professional email. I constantly worry if I being too abrasive, even when it is called for. I have my opinions discounted because I am “too emotional”, so I go out of my way to word things as carefully as possible, or even wait until I can get my husband to back me up, even though I know I don’t need him.

Society tells us that we are not supposed to speak out for ourselves, and even the best of us internalize that.

(via ouyangdan)

All of this, yes. I do it so much. In fact I did it mere moments ago on Facebook :-(

Guh… it’s awful, and it’s so damn hard to change. Because on those occasions where I do manage to not apologize for my very existence before uttering an opinion, the backlash can sometimes so terrible that it’s not even worth it to skip the “I’m sorry, maybe it’s just me, but…”

(via jemimaaslana)

^^^^ my life in a nutshell

(via amydentata)

I’ve posted about this piece before, but it’s worth posting again. If you haven’t read it, please read it now. Especially the men.

(via lostgrrrls)

I definitely do this all the time. I let myself be hurt over and over by people, often times my own friends, rather than pipe up and actually say what I feel. Because I have been taught that to make someone feel uncomfortable or sad or like they were an ass.. that it is rude and not something I should do. 

I have never been able to tell a person, “I am mad at you”, except for my family.  

(via lostgrrrls)