This woman reacts to assholes the exact same way I do, but doesn’t feel ashamed after.
She is very brave. :3
God she’s a beautiful writer. And totally kick-ass.
“I grew up hard and am still hard and I don’t care. I did not choose this face or this body and I have learned to live with it and love it and celebrate it and adorn it with tremendous drawings from the greatest artists in the world and I feel good and powerful like a nation that has never been free and now after many hard won victories is finally fucking free. I am beautiful and I am finally fucking free.
I fly my flag of self-esteem for all those who have been told they were ugly and fat and hurt and shamed and violated and abused for the way they look and told time and time again that they were “different” and therefore unlovable. Come to me and I will tell you and show you how beautiful and loved you are and you will see it and feel it and know it and then look in the mirror and truly believe it. If you are offended by my anger and my might at defending my borders and my people you do not deserve entry into my beloved and magnificent country.”
holy fuck yeah
And if you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you’re gay, lesbian , bisexual, transgender, if you’re a person of size, if you’re a person of intelligence, if you’re a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
And it’s gonna be really hard to find messages of self love and support anywhere, especially women and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way, or else, you’re worthless. You know, when you look in the mirror, and you think, “Oh, I’m so fat, I’m so old, I’m so ugly,” don’t you know, that’s not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollar of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself, so that you will take your hard-earned money and spend it at the mall, on some turn-around cream, that doesn’t turn around shit.
When you don’t have self esteem, you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanted to go for. You will hesitate to ask for a raise. You will hesitate to call yourself an American. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against, because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us, to have self esteem is truly an act of revolution. And our revolution is long overdue.
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