“The truth is, women are still required to be “nice”. To be unthreatening. You can show me all the token examples of assertive modern women, but the fact still remains that more often than not, I hear women deflecting their seriousness, their cleverness, their interrogative spirit, via a systematic persona of infantilising niceness…”
— Hila Shachar, read the rest here.
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Yes.
Yesssss. All of this. I get so tired of people talking about how feminists aren’t “nice.” That if feminists were just a...
THIS!