how to be respected as a teen girl - by Aella - Knowingless

as a girl, like a young girl, maybe you get the impression that boys are cool in a way girls aren't. people praise and laugh at boys for doing high risk things. boys do all the good thinking and flying planes and action movies. and they put women in action movies too but it doesn't reflect life around you - the women you know are moms and shy and weak. you can feel the weakness emanating off of them. they do have passive endurance, of lifestyle martyrdom, of quietly putting up with so much. that’s a type of strength, they say. "Maybe women shouldn't have been allowed to vote" is a conversation you hear occasionally, slightly tongue in cheek but also kind of not. you’re embarrassed to watch romance movies in the same way you might be embarrassed to watch reality tv - if you do it you've got to be meta about it, like 'lol yeah just giving into a guilty pleasure'. it has to be guilty, it can't just be pleasure. Knowingless is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and suppo

as a girl, like a young girl, maybe you get the impression that boys are cool in a way girls aren't. people praise and laugh at boys for doing high risk things. boys do all the good thinking and flying planes and action movies. and they put women in action movies too but it doesn't reflect life around you - the women you know are moms and shy and weak. you can feel the weakness emanating off of them. they do have passive endurance, of lifestyle martyrdom, of quietly putting up with so much. that’s a type of strength, they say. "Maybe women shouldn't have been allowed to vote" is a conversation