sexism

‘She's not even that pretty’, ‘She's so full of herself’, ‘She's such a sl*t’, ‘She wears WAY too much make-up’. If you identify as a woman, chances are, you've thought or said one of the following about another women.

Break rooms at tech offices are furnished with foosball, pingpong and billiards tables –– almost as though they’re man caves.

It didn’t matter who I was playing with. For some reason, male gamers found it so funny to repeat the same stupid sexist comments.

Preventing discrimination won't destroy the social norms that will still disadvantage non-stereotypically feminine women in the workplace, but it's a step in the right direction.

The punctuation mark has become childish, emphasizing the sentence that precedes it as well as sexism in society. I think it should be abolished.

Let’s talk women in lunacy. They're the illuminating symbol, the plot engine and the throughline for all that’s wrong and scary about the world.

I allowed myself to be violated, offended, objectified, dissected, because I didn’t think I held enough worth to deserve to live my life on my own terms.

If I decide to show no skin, or if I want to wear the smallest skimpiest dress in the world, that is my decision. A community full of young women shouldn’t treat each other differently depending on their outfit choices. A sorority should be a space in which women are uplifted through sisterhood, and by regulating their dress code and enforcing the concept that a woman’s worth is correlated to her modesty, a sorority is failing to do so.

I accepted the various forms of physical and emotional abuse from my partners because they filled this void and reminded me of my father.

I now put conscious effort into decolonizing myself by challenging gender binary expectations. Even though I sometimes catch myself saying sorry when I shouldn’t, speaking too softly, or moving to the side to let men pass, I am self-conscious of those actions.