[TW: SELF HARM]

People don’t wanna be compared to the teenage girl; the teenage girl is hated, teenage girls hate themselves. If you listen to a certain kind of music, or if you express your emotions in a certain kind of way, if you self harm, you write diaries, all those kind of activities are sort of laughed at and ridiculed because they’re associated with being a teenage girl. Even just things like being cripplingly self conscious or overly concerned with our appearance, that’s considered like a teenage girl thing and therefore its ridiculous, it’s stupid, it’s not relevant or legitimate, and you know, what we needed at that age was legitimisation and respect and support but all we got was dismissal and “oh you’re such a teenage girl.”

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Feminism, Education, and the plight of the teenage girl (via grrrlfever)

All this shit goes on, and yet we wonder why young women constantly undervalue themselves and their happiness, struggle with self esteem and body image, and deal with eating disorders or self harm. We can’t ask for it all, people. We can’t ask for a group that is an easy target to make fun of, easy to degrade, easy to laud as something to avoid, and simultaneously act like we’re concerned when more and more of that group begins to show the effects of being constantly hated and devalued. This shit’s gotta end.

(via darlingfauna)

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