thegirlyounevernoticed21:

“Raise girls to be resilient, raise your voice to be heard and when silenced, raise it higher. In a household of girls, my parents always told me that I was to be educated so I wouldn’t have a man treat me less than I deserved. That I work so hard that I wouldn’t need a man to tell me I was not enough. So I persevered, I stood by morals and chose to educate myself with books and words. But I am still silenced at times for calling myself a feminist, for speaking a little too forcefully, laughing too loudly, and writing too freely. I then understood that I was a woman, a woman with a voice who spoke for all woman who were afraid to. A boy fears a woman who is strong and educated, don’t worry because you don’t need him. If you know who you are, what you do and you are proud. That is all you need, you is all you need. “

- g.d (to all the woman) 

“Raise girls to be resilient, raise your voice to be heard and when silenced, raise it higher. In a household of girls, my parents always told me that I was to be educated so I wouldn’t have a man treat me less than I deserved. That I work so hard that I wouldn’t need a man to tell me I was not enough. So I persevered, I stood by morals and chose to educate myself with books and words. But I am still silenced at times for calling myself a feminist, for speaking a little too forcefully, laughing too loudly, and writing too freely. I then understood that I was a woman, a woman with a voice who spoke for all woman who were afraid to. A boy fears a woman who is strong and educated, don’t worry because you don’t need him. If you know who you are, what you do and you are proud. That is all you need, you is all you need. “

- g.d (to all the woman) 

msstarsword:

Being a Online Female Gamer and What we Face…

So my BF and I were playing a mod called Osiris something (don’t remember the name) on a video game last night called Mount & Blade Warband. He bought it for me as a gift because he is amazing, but that’s not the point of this post.

Anyway, as we played I got called the usual names like “tits” and “pussy,” and he kept apologizing to me for how rude they were being and he was worried how I was taking it. I just kept responding with the same old “it’s fine, it’s been this way forever, it’s nothing new, it’s not the first time and it won’t be the last.”

But I realized something as I woke up this morning— It’s NOT fine. Women should be able to play games and not get lewd comments all the fucking time. And although it may not phase me (I’ll admit it sure as hell phased 14 year old me when I started online gaming) it may still phase other women a lot! Being objectified for our genitalia and being told to “go save yo pussy starsword, it’s the part worth savin!” Is definitely not ok, this wouldn’t fly in real life. I just wanted to put this out there, I don’t know if there is some movement specifically against this but I feel it important to talk about. Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

-MsStarSword, who is sick of saying “it’s fine.”

teamrocketneverdisbanded:

i’v e  been up with nate since 3:20 pm yesterday and in 20 minutes we will have come full circle

It’s very hard to always be strong,

It’s unfair we have to be strong.

But fuck it, we will be strong

So our children and grandchildren don’t have to be.