Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

women need to wake up and understand every feminist throughout history has experienced being called and compared to every terrible thing in the book. we're gonna kindness and politeness and understanding our way back to the 1950s. women have to start being angry.

imagine the woman you want to become. think of what her daily life looks like. her habits. her routines + her actions. start showing up to these commitments. start building upon them. step by step. day by day. you don't become her overnight. you start somewhere. anywhere. you become so invested and consistent in everything you do to build her.

hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.

"Oh but if a man said this about a woman!" They've in fact done that and worse. For centuries. And no one gave a fuck

eleventh plague. emails. 

When you call a woman a “girl”, you reinforce the infantilization of women as helpless, irrational, weak beings in need of protection. A diminutive term, “girl” denies a woman her adulthood, her maturity and her power. Notice the frequency in which we call men “men” or “guys” but call women “girls”. This is no coincidence. This use of language is rooted in sexism and it is disrespectful, patronizing and disempowering. A woman is not a female child. Stop calling women “girls”.

i think so much about that quote “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” by Gillian Flynn because thats basically female socialization in a nutshell. We’re taught to hate ourselves and our bodies so self destruction looks pleasant and romantic.

Victoria MacKenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain

everybody wish him a happy birthday right now

The notion that straight people who approach sex unconventionally are comparable to gay people is predicated on a conception of gayness as sexual deviance. It’s homophobic.