*Disclaimer* I’m not some crazy feminist that thinks women are better than men, but I do think we are absolutely equal to men.

The fact that I even had to put that “disclaimer” is a perfect example of the oppression of women. Even the word “feminist” has a negative connotation and an immense amount of stigma surrounding it. We can’t even believe in having our own rights without someone being so quick to judge and assume that we’re some radical feminist that thinks all men deserve to rot in hell.

This clearly is not the solution to the problem, it’s just creating more. Sure, we’ve come a long way for women’s rights in the past hundred years, but there’s still so much more to be done. Ladies, we need to band together especially because of the state our country is in with a misogynistic cheeto as our president. With him, this isn’t even just about the rights of women, but basically, anyone who isn’t a white cisgendered male.

I’m not saying we have to dismantle the patriarchy overnight, what I’m getting at is, girls need to be nicer to girls. I think this will both make us stronger and terrify people who think women are the lesser of the genders. Something as simple as telling a stranger that you love her shirt is enough to make her day and show that not everyone is evil.

It’s gotten to the point where girls don’t even know how to take compliments anymore because they’re afraid there’s a hidden meaning behind them, like when Regina George said she liked that girl’s plaid skirt. If girls acted the way they do when they’re drunk in the bathroom at a bar all the time, then we’d get a lot more accomplished. (I don’t mean the throwing up in the garbage can obviously, I mean the “omg you have a piece of toilet paper stuck on your shoe, do you want to be best friends?”)

I am a firm believer in ~*GRL PWR*~.

I think that if we could all get along and stop slut-shaming and hating girls because they said hi to our boyfriend one time then we’d be able to work together towards, I don’t know, equal pay for equal work regardless of gender or sexual orientation or whatever other discriminatory bologna is going on today. If we take all the energy we use hating each other, and work together toward equality, then we could get so much accomplished.

All it takes is a small step, so get out there and give someone a compliment so we can starting working together toward the rights we deserve.