Feminist declarations

[TheSparrowhawk]

I am worthwhile, no matter what I look like.

I matter. My feelings matter. My experiences matter.

I do not need to apologise for what I think, know or feel.

I do not need to protect the feelings of men who are treating me badly.

The things that men have done to me are their shame, not mine.

Add your own.

Other women are not in competition with me.
My self worth is not based on the validation of strangers.
I do not have to be nice and compliant, I do have to be myself.

If I feel intimidated by standing up for myself, my resolve to do is strengthened, not weakened.

Lovely, thank you, I needed that this morning. Nothing to add except I find all the statements so much easier to believe if I am reading to an imaginary "you" rather than as an "I". Says a lot about why I need statements like these.

I am a woman and will not apologise for that

It is not a figment of my imagination that women are greatly under represented in positions of power and men are over represented. This is a fact. Regardless of a few anomalies like Theresa May and Thatcher. Women are still under represented.

I am not imagining that the overwhelming majority of victims of sexual crime are women. This is a fact.

When I state a fact like 88% of all violent crime is committed by men, I am not man-hating. I am forced into spiralling into NAMALT arguments, this is a waste of my time. I want to call male violence out and do something about it without being accused of Man hating. Men commit violence at a far higher rate than women.

Women do not innately love pink do not innately want to damage our feet with high heels and do not innately want to cover our faces in artificial cosmetics. We are conditioned to do so by a society that views women as not good enough the way we naturally are.