lunariagold:

learningtoacceptchange:

mermaid-on-land:

you know, the weird thing about the ‘i didn’t care about feminism until i had a daughter’ crowd is that the vast majority of these men have wives.they formed close,intimate relationships with actual human woman over the course of several years and yet that wasn’t enough to make them give half a shit about women’s issues. but the very moment that wife, that living breathing human female with rights and needs that these men could have been caring about this whole time,pops out a baby that  they feel is their possession, then women’s issues are important. very bizarre. 

… I’m making tea. 

It’s because many men see women they have sex with differently. I’ve met so many who were outright misogynists yet vowed they would beat up anyone who would dare throw a single bad glance in their mother’s direction.  

A daughter seems like a full, ‘valid person’ because it is a bond that is totally not based on sex. It is scary how deeply ingrained- and often subconscious- is the belief that someone you can fuck makes them more fair game to disregard and more of an accessory.