girls supporting girls! If you go through my texts this year, you will find multiple threads with that same message. This summer I started a YouTube channel, which was something I've always wanted to do, but never had the chance to.

When I finally created my channel, each and every one off my girlfriends supported me. So many women the each other down because society has this standard for women as a result of the patriarchy. "Cutthroat female competition is due mainly to the fact that women, born and raised in male-dominated society, internalize the male gaze and adopt it as their own" Noam Shpancer writes in Psychology Today article on female competitiveness.

I was so surprise and grateful for my girls' support, but I was even more surprised when my guy friends supported me. At first, they laughed, but once they saw my dedication, they supported me. They would always post my videos on their social media prompting others to check them out.

girls supporting girls is important but people supporting people is imperative to the world becoming a better place. Instead of texting girls supporting girls, I plan on texting "people supporting people".