“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual enough aren’t taken seriously. Women who are conventionally attractive get valued solely for their sexual appeal; women who aren’t conventionally attractive get dismissed for their lack of it. Women who are conventionally attractive are assumed to be dumb bimbos; women who aren’t conventionally attractive are assumed to be either bitter or desperate. Women who are conventionally attractive get trivialized; women who aren’t conventionally attractive get treated with pity and contempt. We can’t win.”
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(via ceedling)
Exactly. One can’t win…if one accepts and plays by ‘the rules’, which is why I refuse to do so. “Women are not in the wrong when they decline to accept the rules laid down for them, since the men make these rules without consulting them.” —Michel de Montaigne
(via aspiringhermit)