No, you don't scare me, because I love life, I love it too much for you to make me shudder in fear, I love it too much for you to intimidate me. I'm a woman, you know, I have that genital organ that according to your misogynous customs signifies weakness, and reduces me to an object, a nobody. And I'm not afraid of you, I'm going to go on living, to travel by plane, to listen to music and sing aloud to it, to dance, to have drinks on the terrace with people I love, because, yes, I love. That feeling that's non-existent in your body -- did the God who created you forget to provide you with it?
Is it the absence of love that allows you to carry military weapons and to kill innocent people on the streets? Or is it the absence of a brain that would give you perspective?
I'm going to...
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“On Friday evening, you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not get my hate. I do not know who you are and I do not want to know, you are dead souls. If this God for whom you blindly killed cast us in his own image, each bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wound to his heart.
“So no, I will not grant you the gift of hating you. You have certainly sought it but to respond to hate with anger would be to yield to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. You want me to be scared, that I look at my fellow citizens with a distrustful eye, that I sacrifice my freedom for security. You’ve lost. Same player, shoot again.
“I saw her this morning. Finally, after nights and days of waiting. She was just as...
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Woman Writes Fantastic Open Letter After Receiving A Nasty Note Claiming She Was Faking A Disability
Everyone can agree that it's important to keep handicapped parking spots open for those who need them. But what isn't always so apparent is what someone with a disability looks like. Assumptions that people in need of the closer parking spaces are wheelchair-bound are all too rampant and so is nastiness, as Justine Van Den Borne, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, found out earlier this month.
After enjoying a pleasant day of shopping with her daughter, Van Den Borne returned to her car and found a much less pleasant note waiting for her on her windshield. The letter ("Did you forget your wheelchair???") was as concise as it was cruel. While it certainly stung, Van Den Borne decided she wasn't going to stay silent in the face of judgement; instead, she penned an open letter to its...
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Rose McGowan is slamming Caitlyn Jenner for her remarks that the “hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear” during her Glamour Women of the Year Awards acceptance speech.
“Caitlyn Jenner you do not understand what being a woman is about at all. You want to be a woman and stand with us- well learn us. We are more than deciding what to wear. We are more than the stereotypes foisted upon us by people like you. You’re a woman now? Well f—king learn that we have had a VERY different experience than your life of male privilege,” the 42-year-old actress and director wrote in a Facebook post, which has since been deleted. “Woman of the year? No, not until you wake up and join the fight. Being a woman comes with a lot of baggage. The weight of unequal history. You’d do well...
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Dear Parents,
I am quite sure that you have all been in this situation at one time or another with at least one of your children. You know, when you pretty much know that your teens are going to drink alcohol at a party so you debate to yourself about whether or not to have the party at your own house rather than risk having the teens drink at a friend or acquaintance's home.
So, you most likely think to yourself that perhaps you should host the party at your house for many reasons including:
1. You will be able to keep an eye on the kids.
2. You will not allow the teens to drive if you notice that they are drunk.
3. You will get a chance to get to know the friends of your own teens and perhaps they might even think that you are cool and will like you and open up to you...
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Dear Mayor Murray,
My name is Lisa Decker and I am the parent co-founder of the child-generated movement Children Helping Elephants. [1] On 4/6/2015 the children and I came to speak at City Council and delivered a document to your office. I hope you have had a chance to look at it and see the powerful way that the children are advocating for Chai and Bamboo through their words and their art. Every child who has created art for our movement is now connected to this issue in a deep and lasting way. These kids are motivated and I believe they will all become lifelong advocates for one of the most intelligent, most empathetic and most endangered species on our planet. If you haven’t listened to the words of brave, 8-year old Autumn Miller speaking at council on 4/6, I strongly urge you...
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Dear Children’s Eye Care Providers,
First off, thank you! Thank you for you devoting your time and energy and career to the care of our children’s vision. Our children’s eyes and their vision are so very important to us and to them, and we truly appreciate your expertise and your care and your help. We know that you want our children to see as well as they can, and we want the same thing.
Please help us to understand our children’s vision and their vision problems. I know you studied the visual system and eyes, not how to calm a freaked out parent, and I know that we are not always easy to deal with (and especially after eye drops, our children aren’t always the easiest either). But we know that glasses and patches and eye drops and vision therapy and other treatments work best...
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Dear people between the ages of 20 and 40,
I hear things aren't going so well for you these days. The last time we talked – remember, when you asked if you could borrow $250 to get the alternator on your 1996 Nissan Pulsar fixed? – it was already clear that you are going through a rough patch. It looks like that "patch" might last for a long time, something like ten years. Five if we're lucky. Look, I know that some of this is our fault. Maybe a lot of it. That's why I gave you the $250 for your car, and why I keep offering to take you on vacation with me and Dad, and paid for you to get those two teeth fixed by Dr. Morimoto when you were in town over Christmas. I know it embarrasses you when I do things like that. Maybe "humiliates" is a better word. But here's the thing: we love you...
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Dear People who told my 14 year old that her feet and legs are too white,
Why did you feel the need to point that out to my daughter? Do you think it has escaped her that she is white? That she might even be a pasty white? Okay, well clearly that’s the issue. You could have left it there, but no you had to tell her that she should tan. Well, this is the last thing I want her thinking. That she’s not good enough the way she is.
First of all, as she told you she doesn’t tan. That pasty white skin turns pink or red. Not a glimpse of tan in these pasty white children. Depending on how you look at it, they were either blessed or cursed with their mother’s skin tone.
I spent my childhood not thinking my color was good enough. And that lead to lots of “tanning” at the first sight of a...
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Dear Child I Hit At The Park,
Even now from the dark void of time out, where I was firmly plopped upon the bottom step of my family's staircase to "think about what I did," I can't say with any sincerity that I'm sorry.
I know you'll agree with me when I say that life as a toddler in a world clearly built for people four to five times our size can feel like a series of never-ending, sized induced frustrations. Desks that are too high. Ledges, just out of reach. Chairs that when you attempt to push them toward a counter snag on a rug leaving you condemned to amusement purgatory, inches that may as well be miles away from the treasure trove that is the junk drawer. Structural prejudices are everywhere.
I don't know about you but as I've grown, UP has become less and less frequent...
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