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The constant apologising women do for being alive

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ElfenorRathbone · 13/12/2011 19:29

I read this article in Jezebel just now and nodded in recognition.

Just thought I'd post it as it's good. Xmas Smile

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/12/2011 20:24

Wow. I'm nodding to all of that, and the poem.

I apologize all the time. I only realize how much I do it when I listen to other women do the same thing.

TeamDamon · 13/12/2011 19:38

I nodded in recognition too.

Did you read the poem someone posted in reply? I love this stanza:

I?m sorry I sounded like your teacher.
I was, in fact, your teacher, and you were, to be precise,
a student, in my class at the university,
and I do happen to know a lot about that particular subject,
which is arguably why they let me teach it in the first place,
but I?m sorry I spoke with so much authority.

That is exactly how some of my male students have made me feel.

ElderberrySyrup · 13/12/2011 19:33

oh that is fantastic, thank you for posting.
'We are a generation that arrived pre-empowered thanks to the work of our moms and grandmothers and great-grandmothers. We're smart, we're ambitious, we're hardworking, we're determined, we're badass, we're brilliant ? and we're still so very, very sorry.'