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History of Feminism

MadrasT

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5. When I express these thoughts out loud, so often I hear,

Reply to redqueen (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 29, 2014, 01:46 PM

Jul 2014

"But think how much worse it was only 100 or 200 years ago!"

It makes me want to bang my head on a rock.

So we've gone from really shitty to slightly less shitty? Excuse the fuck out of me while I don't jump up and down and wave my pompoms and wiggle my ass in a miniskirt.

Full, autonomous, personhood for all women, everywhere. Nothing less is acceptable.

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When I express these thoughts out loud, so often I hear, MadrasT Jul 2014 #5

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