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okay so idk what to call this so...that's what i came up with. Anyways, not much happened today. Hans came up to the group i stand with in the carline (again) and said "hi Mason, his Mason's girlfriend, hi Mason's girlfriend's sister" and so on with the others around us. he didn't know that my brother was my brother...

okay...time for HEARING ME OUT TIME

I don't know alot about this world, or why we're all here. But does anyone? And we were all created equal, right? So why don't we treat each other equally? Women are paid $.78 to the dollar, when men are paid the full dollar. Why is that? Do they think women deserve less? Or that we aren't worthy enough to earn it? Because we are strong. Women are powerful, yet sometimes that power is hidden and stripped from them because someone else takes it all out of them. I only know that because my mom opened my eyes and told me that was exactly what my dad was doing. He was manipulating my sister and I, because we're powerful young women, yet he seems to take it away from us. He always makes us cry if he does something right. I don't know what that something is, but it's something. And we should be able to (as my mom says) "grow some balls and suck it up" because we're powerful, we have a voice, but he always makes my confidence shatter. 

And what is the deal with freaking makeup?! why can only girls/women wear it unless a man is in theater?! As a Tumblr post once told me, "Makeup is gender neutral." so if a guy wants to paint his nails pink or wear a bright red lipstick he freaking can. And gendered deodorants are kind of pointless. If a grown man wants to smell like cocoa butter kiss than he freaking can. Curtsying is also ridiculous. If a woman wants to bow and she's wearing a dress, then so be it. Let her freaking bow. 

And when men laugh at women because they "don't know what a radiator is" just think about it. We were never taught growing up. We are taught to cook, clean, sew, take care of others and our environment. Yet growing up guys are taught how to hotwire a car, mow the lawn, lift heavy things, be gentlemen, fix electrical, plumbing and other house problems, how to fix cars. Yet girls aren't introduced to any of that. Hell, we'd know what a freaking radiator is if we were taught. Yet did anyone care to freaking teach us? No! Because we're girls. And apparently we're "fragile, young, timid, lady-like creatures" and aren't capable of doing that. But that's not true at all. Girls of any age can learn how to fix the same things guys can, or hotwire a car. We shouldn't be afraid of walking alone at night. We shouldn't have to stick our keys in between our fingers like knives for self defense. We shouldn't be afraid of being harassed or hit on when it's unwanted. We shouldn't be afraid to find our voice and make a change for women all over the world. 

Both sexes should be treated equally because that's how God made us. We were all born equal. Fighting like a girl means that I'm fighting fiercely, nobly, bravely, and in heels. I fight like a girl. And sometimes we may need a man to help us, yet we've got this game called life in the palm of our hand.

"For a country that just received marriage equality, shouldn't gender equality be next?" -Rowan E. Blanchard

#TeamHeforShe

 


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