Thread by @TrulyTafakari

Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.

Nor are they tiny spiritual guides sent to newly show you the humanity of girls and women.

Daughters are more likely to suffer from your misogyny if you believe that having a girl cures you of it.

I do not heap praise upon people who hold newborn girls and proclaim their nascent understanding of female humanity.

I grieve.

That a whole new person must be born before you recognize girls/women are people who deserve decency?

And even that wondrous proclamation of “girlz r peeple! 🤯” is often tinged with a weird obsession over the newborn girl’s eventual pubescent development or future sexuality.

I just…can’t.

Work out your misogyny in your therapist’s office. Work out your past hurts and issues with women in your internal room.

But don’t use your daughter as that space. She is not karma for fuckshit, or sent in spite of it. She is herself.

Love her as such.