To be "difficult" as a woman is often to carry the weight of collective discomfort with female autonomy. It is an idea at odds with the culture of conformism that most women are raised in, with the ecosystem that demands compliance over confrontation. And so, when a woman refuses to bend, it is easier to seek her dismissal as unreasonable, hysterical, deracinated, even dangerous. As British writer Rebecca West put it over a century ago: "I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute."- Paromita Chakrabarti
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i made it, but idk if i made taco or some totally different dish π
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