Reasons why I'm a feminist
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault
•Because my Dad thinks it's okay to tell my 20 year old sister with F cups to put on a bra
•Because my Grandfather peeped on my sister in the shower when she was 13 with a mirror.
•Because my boyfriends stepdads gay brother snuck into my bfs room during a visit and molested him as he laid in shock and cried. He's too afraid to tell his family.
•Because I can't have bare shoulders or shorts at school in 102° weather
•Because my principal watches girls walk down the hallway
•Because boys touch my chest and ass at school and not a single teacher says anything.
•Because I got suspended for punching a guy in the face after he took a pencil and kept poking my breast even after I kept telling him to stop.
•Because my trans friend was molested on school grounds and the school tried to stop him from reporting it.
•My friends mom needed an abortion after finding out she concieved ectopically, and the mom and baby both almost died because Christian doctors shamed her and denied to give her one.
•Im told to put on longer shorts whenever my aunt and uncle come over in the summer.
•The men in my family constantly mock the women for gaining weight.
•My cousins autistic brother was raped in a mental hospital and received no justice or medical attention.
•The principal said that my friend was not allowed to use the bathroom at school anymore...she has celiacs disease.
•Heartbeat Bill (Need I say more?)
•Women in some states get murder sentences for abortions, but most rapist don't even get more than a year.
•A child was forced to give birth, and the rapist got joint custody.
•I was almost molested in a mental hospital because I was given too much medication and couldn't defend myself. Then the staff looked at me face down in a bed crying and said "Those pills don't make you do this..." And said I was faking it, then sent me to group crying.
•Because women are afraid to walk at night.
•Because women are seen as easy targets.
•Because trans women get assaulted and are left to die in the streets every day.
•Because women get paid less than men for the same job.
•Because my friends step dad molested her as a child and when she told her entire family, her mom sent her to her dad's house in another state and kept dating the step dad.
•My brother was raped by an older girl and was brainwashed to believe that men can't be raped and that he's lucky. He was 14.
•My old best friend and his other friend were raped in a shed by the same girl that raped my brother. Made to believe the same things.
•Women are made to believe that they shouldn't masturbate or have a lot of sex, or they're whores.
•Men are made to believe the opposite.
•A little boy would sneak up behind me and grab/smack my ass even after I said to stop a dozen times. He was told by the older boys that it was ok. He was 8. I was 12. And I was scared.
•Because I had to make this fucking post in the first place.
