"Everyone with a set of ovaries, listen to me. Please, stop freaking out, screaming, and jerking when you see a bug. It's really not attractive. It doesn't look good. It's just a small insect, it's not going to kill you."Everyone rolls their eyes, and I say:
"I am so sick of you guys thinking you are the center of the universe. Girls don't need to look attractive all the time for you. When there is a small living thing with eight legs and non-appetizing looks walking on my arm, the last thing I care about is what the opposite gender will think of me when I scream. Everyone with a set of testicles should know that we don't exist to please you guys."&&&
You know what really doesn't look attractive? A dogmatic male trying to assert his egregious patriarchal believes onto others. You know what also doesn't look attractive? This male incessantly, and audaciously pressing on his beliefs to be true and not trying to accept the reality.
The reality being we, women, aren't on Earth to give men pleasure. We aren't beings who can simply be dehumanized into objects. We don't have to look attractive and beautiful by society's standards so that men can stare and gawk at us. We don't have to be skinny or tall, we don't have to have ridiculous body proportions that are impossible to retain without health problems; we don't have to wear things that expose our bodies; we don't have to wear things that camouflage our bodies; we don't need to hide our fat; we don't need to put on make-up; we don't need to spray perfume; we don't need to engage in any activity that makes us uncomfortable for the sole purpose of gratifying men's wishes.
We can do all that for ourselves, and we do. However, the majority of the male population on Earth conceitedly thinks we do all that for them, and therefore impose this view onto helpless women who are prone to oppression. In the end, we have females who do not know what social activism is. We have females who have been brainwashed to think female rights movements are negative ideologies where women rebel against their governments, live on streets, shave their heads, and burn their bras. We have females who don't do anything to change their daughters' futures, knowing their daughters will go through the same hardships as they did.
The world DOES need equality. Females aren't put on Earth to satisfy males. We can't be reduced to money, clothes, and stupidity. We aren't bound to be agreeable, weak, and submissive. And the biggest female rights advocates today should NOT be females. They should be males. Why? Because we are trying to change the male perspective on the issue, and before we achieve our goals of equality through the social rights movement, males won't listen to females. The cycle will repeat itself endlessly if males don't intervene to change other males, and we'll be stuck at the same point. It's the same idea. But the same idea presented to males by males is more effective.
So get moving. Go educate, advocate, act, volunteer, write, create, establish, think, donate and live. Go, and do something to change the world. Whatever is your talent or your passion, act on it to improve the standards of living. If you parkour really well, then advertise through parkouring. If you are a photographer, tell stories through your photographs. If you are a barista, communicate with the customers. Write on the chalkboard. Make graffiti.
Social activism doesn't hurt.
Lots of owls,
~Belle