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Give upppp! Give upppp!

Let’s just hope that the people who most need to see this actually take time to watch it.

Before you work yourself into a froth over the idea that I am calling myself pretty, or that I insist only…

But a lot of them, let’s be honest, probably shouldn’t be having kids. A lot of them don’t have the time, and don’t want to make the sacrifices to their careers, and that’s fine.

I got about half.

It reminds you how many beautiful lyrics and well-crafted melodies we gloss over when listening to a really good beat. And sometimes it’s just nice to listen.

I remember the first time a man told me that I should “stop flirting.” He was my boyfriend, I was about…

And for many of us, the solution has been to look away. I admit that, in my ignorance, I have wanted to forget about the problem and think of more pleasant things.

And let me stop you before you come in with the natural response to these kinds of problems, the good-in-theory catch-all of “But feminism is about supporting ALL choices!” I am aware that this is the idea and, in its best manifestations, the example of what feminism is.