Thread by @kitty_science

1) If it was not for feminism, I would not have the right to vote, to work, to get an education, to have property or a bank account or even to wear pants.

Marital rape was legal until 1979. Feminists changed that. They fought for women’s right to say no.

2) These rights were not freely given to us by those who stole it in the first place. Hundreds of women were imprisoned, tortured to death, raped, and force fed, while fighting for female emancipation (see the gruesome history of the suffragettes).

3) Sexual assault and rape was employed to silence and humiliate the women speaking out.

But we did not stay silent. And we will not stay silent. Sexism, misogyny, and rape culture is still rampant throughout the world.

4) Men still think it is perfectly fine to grope women in clubs/public. When I used to go out, I was groped at least 20 times within the first hour every time.

5) When you spent your whole life fighting for your passion while male teachers, colleagues, friends, and strangers tell you that you exist to please a husband and pop out babies while cooking him dinner, jokes about things like that leaves you crying.

6) Because fighting is exhausting. It is painful. Very painful. But those who laugh will never know. They will never experience that horror. So they laugh and look the other way.

They look the other way when 1 in 4 women have been raped. When children are dying in cages.

7) When corrective assault and conversion therapy is still legal. When 100% of women have been sexually harassed. When we are told the rape was our fault because of what we wear. When we are still fighting for bodily autonomy.
They look the other way, and they laugh.

8) So I will continue to fight for my equality, safety, and freedom. So that maybe one day in the distant future we don’t have to fight.