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@Capt_Haddoc

Agnostic. Feminist. Chasing Happiness- Always.

Katılım Aralık 2010
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𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪
𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪@elioralux·
A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying. The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds. Just resting. Not sleeping. When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly, “Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.” A few people chuckled. She laughed too. But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been: holding the baby, packing snacks, cleaning spills, walking him down the aisle, missing her own meal trying to calm him down… while the husband watched a movie with headphones on. And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted. Not because they’re doing everything alone. But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”
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Elnathan John
Elnathan John@elnathan_john·
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.” —Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality
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daktari Linnie🌻
daktari Linnie🌻@Linnielinniele·
Oral record keeping preserves our history, & if it didn't: 1. oppressors wouldn't kill so many orators & revolutionaries telling stories at marketplaces 2. religion would not survive as long as it has esp since most people don't read religious books, they listen to preachers
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daktari Linnie🌻@Linnielinniele

actually, Africans 'preferring' oral record keeping was ingenious resistance or response to invaders destroying libraries & knowledge preserving artifacts, time after time. hiding information in people's brains was part of early resistance, protecting some things till today

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EgoKuwait 🇰🇼
EgoKuwait 🇰🇼@Egokuwait·
It's not like we love to complain too much o, but remember when they wanted to repackage garri, add milk and other things to make it luxurious, you saw the way people shunned it and it didn’t see the light of day??? Yes, that's the energy we should all keep for every other basic thing.
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bunnie
bunnie@CuriousBunnie12·
hospices exist because women caring for young children can’t also care for their parents suffering from dementia
HankDunleavy@harper_pau55997

@CuriousBunnie12 Hospitals would exist but hospices exist because women are working at hospices and can't take care of their mothers so strangers have to do it.

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Lady Lawya
Lady Lawya@Parkerlawyer·
In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.” The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove. So I got pissed. Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids. Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women. That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm. Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.
☥𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐱@fw_lennox1

What happened to you that changed the entire trajectory of your life??

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amanda 🩷@AmandaDannielle·
I understand answers like this. But also, what is so farfetched about women having purpose outside the home?! When I think about not being a housewife, it has nothing to do with a man and everything to do with my own personhood.
jezz@JezziiB

How come women no longer want to be housewives? (I was ask this question by a coworker? My response: Because if you give a man the power to feed you, then you give a man the power to starve you.

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