Why does it feel like something I need to address every time I write something? Why do I feel I need to justify myself as a writer because I'm a woman?
The best why? Why can't men make me feel the ways these women give me chills. Fuck beyonce, and any other 'feminist' who still makes money from selling themselves as a woman.
Ruby Rose is full of normal, human feelings. She just wants to dress how she wants, look how she wants, and for it to not be a problem. In the beginning she's pretty; by the end she's beautiful,
This girl makes me wish I'd continued writing poetry. The fact that this poem has people asking 'why do people think you're so special & brave for saying these things'. The fact that she's personalised one of the most impersonal 'acts'. We're brought up in a world where abortions are still so taboo. I hope that soon, a generation will be able to talk about this stuff. Boys will have a say too. Bodies, sexualisation, contraception and the moral choices we make can be discussions not arguments, and thoughts can be shared, not stopped.
Carrie isn't exactly 'feminist role model', but she's got the right give to just say what needs to be said. She's working in a world where woman are literally simplified - characters, disney princess, they all break down into the basic forms of what a woman is. She's fighting for those female roles which have more punch, more fight in them.
I'm constantly looking for these women. In my outer conscience I'd tell you it's for my dissertation, but on the inside, it's because I lack female role models in my life. It becomes more and more apparent to me that my mother is not one, at all, and if she has influenced anything in me its the stuff I need to now straighten out. No person is perfect, but having a few strong women to look up to is a much better place to discover yourself than to have three women who literally question your life decisions at every turn.
Katniss Everdeen. Just, all of what I know about her in the films. Jennifer Lawrence. Strength and courage, beauty and bravery.
http://mic.com/articles/89191/dear-women-you-are-being-lied-to?utm_source=upworthy.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_facebook
http://www.upworthy.com/that-one-body-part-were-too-scared-to-talk-about-isnt-really-that-scary?c=ufb2
http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/us-canada/69726-emma-watson-gender-equality?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=referral
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