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no eleventh hour reprieve
Oct. 2nd, 2010 09:59 pmThis is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
This is women being proud of who they are and not giving a damn about what other people think. This is women wearing their bodies, their scars, their surgeries, their stories bared to the world, unflinching and unafraid of someone trying to shame them back into submission. This is women daring people to look at them, daring people to judge them, daring people to think about and remember them. This is women taking their power back from the world and reminding everyone that rules are what we make them to be. This is women taking their shirts off, standing in public, and taking whatever the world throws at them because they feel that there is a message that needs to be sent to the world:
Do not pity me. Do not pity you. Be everything you should be and be proud of it and apologize to no one. The world instills fear in you because it, itself, is afraid. The world is afraid of you. So give it something that really hits the Panic! button.
That, to me, is one of the most powerful things I have ever realized. The world is fucking terrified of me. My body, my voice, and my mind are weapons of mass destruction. Every day the world tries to tear away from me what is mine by right. Don't act out. Don't make waves. Don't talk too loud, don't run too fast, don't wear low cut clothes, don't wear too many. The world knows how to control only the smallest iota of existence and if you do not fit that mold, they'll try to hammer you until you do. Because if you dare to lash out and break that mold? It'll be anarchy.
Fuck yeah, anarchy.
This is women being proud of who they are and not giving a damn about what other people think. This is women wearing their bodies, their scars, their surgeries, their stories bared to the world, unflinching and unafraid of someone trying to shame them back into submission. This is women daring people to look at them, daring people to judge them, daring people to think about and remember them. This is women taking their power back from the world and reminding everyone that rules are what we make them to be. This is women taking their shirts off, standing in public, and taking whatever the world throws at them because they feel that there is a message that needs to be sent to the world:
Do not pity me. Do not pity you. Be everything you should be and be proud of it and apologize to no one. The world instills fear in you because it, itself, is afraid. The world is afraid of you. So give it something that really hits the Panic! button.
That, to me, is one of the most powerful things I have ever realized. The world is fucking terrified of me. My body, my voice, and my mind are weapons of mass destruction. Every day the world tries to tear away from me what is mine by right. Don't act out. Don't make waves. Don't talk too loud, don't run too fast, don't wear low cut clothes, don't wear too many. The world knows how to control only the smallest iota of existence and if you do not fit that mold, they'll try to hammer you until you do. Because if you dare to lash out and break that mold? It'll be anarchy.
Fuck yeah, anarchy.
