If you are a woman, if youâre a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person od intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
âŚAnd itâs going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially womenâs and gay menâs culture. Itâs all about how you have to look a certain way or else youâre worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you think âoh, Iâm so fat, Iâm so old, Iâm so uglyâ, donât you know, thatâs not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesnât turn around shit.
When you donât have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.
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