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We all know women can't organize—that they scrap like anything—are frightfully jealous."

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

Women’s insistence on social harmony at all costs is problematic.

Yesterday, a woman pushed me too far at a social event with her pedantic interruptions. As soon as I pushed back saying she wasn’t letting me finish, she started giving that very white lady patronizing giggle and said something like “go ahead and finish sweetheart”. I then said I

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

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Women create shadow hierarchies while pretending to want equality

Claim: Competent women should be rewarded based on ability

Reality: Women who shine too brightly must be taken down a notch

Claim: Beauty standards are oppressive and we want equality

Reality: Deny differences in beauty while creating hierarchies based on it

Claim: Women should live their

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but these women aren't WOMANLY.

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

We are taught that women are the empathetic, caring, and nurturing ones and any deviation from this belief is deemed a failure of DNA or the mother. Women who do not exist in these boxes are considered disrespectful, aggressive, or too masculine. Black women who assert boundaries or raise their voices have historically been labeled aggressive or... See more

i want women to be meaner

We talk fine things about women, but in our hearts we know that they are very limited beings—most of them.