This is a frequent and common feature of family dysfunction, heard from some advocates directly from victims, including domestic violence….. Some people don’t just want you to believe their story. …
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When Girls Say Something Feels Wrong, Why Are We So Quick to Explain It Away?
Sometimes a girl notices something about an adult that everybody else would rather not see. You know what bothers me? How quickly people can come up with an explanation for …
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Lessons from the Girls: You Can’t Spend the Entire Fight on the Ropes
We spend so much time trying to prepare girls for the world that we sometimes forget to watch what they do when the world challenges them. And some young women …
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Caught Between Two Political Extremes: Why Women and Girls Shouldn’t Have to Choose Who Gets to Control Them
One side wants women to go back. The other has people telling women to move over. And somewhere in the middle, women are asking a perfectly reasonable question: When do …
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The Survivor Who No Longer Agrees Just to Keep the Peace
Some Survivors of abuse become particularly unwilling to participate in narratives they believe are false, especially after they have spent years being pressured to distrust their own observations, memories, and …
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When Freedom Starts Sounding Like Obedience: Why Some Women Call Gender Ideology Extreme Conformity
Women spent generations fighting to get out of boxes. Now we’re supposed to celebrate somebody handing us a new set of instructions? Well, hold on a minute. Because I remember …
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How Many Women and Girls Have to Be Hurt, Harmed, or Disappointed Before You Consider It a Problem?
updated from November 10, 2026 WE stand up for the rights of girls. WE hope everyone else will too. It is past time that we all do. Girls have rights …
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Women Are Tired of Being Told that We Do Not Understand Sexism and Misogyny
We recognize the expectation that women should accommodate men. We recognize the practice of dismissing women’s objections as emotional, irrational, or uninformed. We recognize the habit of treating women’s sacrifices …
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9 Ways Misogyny Is Marketed as Progress
This post was inspired in part by this article……Russell Brand and the tyranny of the Greater Good – spiked Some people have not abandoned the expectation that women should sacrifice. …
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It Was Cold Outside. The Girls Wanted to Wear Pants. The School Board Had to Vote.
It took a long time for my mother to be comfortable with me wearing pants. I think it was 3rd grade. A lot of GenX, Boomer and more blessed years …