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Does anyone else have an list of 10-15 untouchable thoughts that if you let yourself remeber or think about them for even a second it’s excruciating or is this a me thing

weltenwellen

Buttercream Joy Sullivan

lilithsplace

Untitled (rain drops), 2017 - Paul Manes (b. 1948) oil on canvas | source:

eudaemaniacal

this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

rhube

Read this - oh my goodness, this girl was wonderful.

lrlamauthor

Where can I read this in full?

caitiesith

It’s from Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories, and that particular section is by Martha Carey Thomas who grew up to be a suffragist, linguist and renowned educator, as well as a badass lesbian.

pusheen-the-radical

I really truly love historical sources like this, because they are absolutely invaluable in tackling the meninist argument that womens these days have gotten all uppity and forgotten their god-assigned role of being the good-lady-woman (bangmaid). that whole rhetoric lies on the (false) assertion that some magic, golden period of the past exists in which women enjoyed their oppression, or, better yet, were unaware that they were oppressed at all, and the ‘natural state’ of things (patriarchy) functioned harmoniously.

we need more accounts like this that show rhat women have always been People and have always been aware that how they’re treated is unfair and wrong. women have always craved freedom, intellectual fulfillment, the right to self-determination; we have never been ok with just being mindless servants.

hexjulia

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.