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Edgar Allan Poe, from a story featured in The Complete Poetry & Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

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First you’re taught to fear a phantom, a man in black, a man with a knife, a man who’ll pounce in dark alleys. Well-intentioned women—mothers, aunts, teachers—will train you to protect yourself: Don’t wear your hair in a ponytail; it’s easier to grab. Hold your keys in one hand; hold your pepper spray in the other. Avoid dark alleys. When you reach young adulthood, the lessons change. They acquire an undertone of disgust: Don’t drink so much. Don’t wear such short skirts. You’re sending mixed signals; you’re putting yourself at risk. If you follow the advice and it never happens—if you end up one of the three out of four—you can convince yourself that safety is a product of your own making, a reflection of inherent goodness. But if you’re paying attention, you realize something doesn’t add up. Because it keeps happening: to your sisters; to your friends; to little girls and grown women you’ll never meet, in places like Cleveland, Texas; Steubenville, Ohio; New Delhi. Good people, bad people, neutral. It keeps happening in TV shows and novels and movies—they open on the missing girl, the dead girl, the raped girl. If you’re paying attention, you begin to realize that it isn’t happening. It is being done. And you are not safe. You have never been safe. You were born with a bulls-eye on your back. All you have ever been is lucky.

- Cara Hoffman, "The Female Gaze: SO MUCH PRETTY"

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girl:*drops pencil*

me: oh my god are you okay???did u get hurt ? pencils are so sharp these days ugh

guy:* gets hit by a car*

me: well i mean,he should’ve checked the road first………

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"‏أنا لست بخير.. لكني أجيد الصمت.. ولست قويًا.. لكني لا أملك خيارًا آخر.. لست متماسكًا.. لكني سقطت كثيرًا لدرجة أنني لم أعد أشعر بأي شيء."

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Girls: *born*

Society: Girls should care about ball gowns, their hairstyles, princesses, their appearance, and getting married.

Young women: *talk about fashion, celebrities, reality tv*

Society: why are girls so vapid? Why don’t they care about anything besides looking hot? You don’t deserve jobs, equal pay, or equal attention in educational spaces. You don’t deserve to be heard because your opinions are meaningless.

Young women: *talk about sexism, feminism, politics that affect their lives, things they have experienced. Vote, read, and share their opinions*

Society: you bitches need to shut up and go back to fashion. It’s all you know. Why do we even let them vote? They have no idea what they’re talking about.

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She never told them it was harassment. She called it attention. Then called it nothing.  Then called in sick. 

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women in politics aren’t allowed to be mildly annoying while men in politics can be rapists and pedophiles

men being in charge hurts all of us

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man: i hate women

reasons (probably):

getting rejected by crush

women won't date them

wives are too occupied with housework/children

women are too emotional/entitled/taken by all the chads

men taking on feminine roles like cooking, cleaning, caring for children, housework.

woman: i hate men

reasons:

girls in third word countries are forced to undergo genitalia mutilation

girls and women are pimped out by men to trafficking rings, forced to be assaulted in humiliation rooms and have non consensual deepfake pornography created by them.

nudes leaked by boyfriend can ruin their career

rights to abortion taken away

casual sexual harassment

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— Marguerite Duras, "The Ravishing of Lol Stein," pub. c. 1964 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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i just separated the art from the artist but all that's left are bones