What a privilege it is to be able to say it’s hard to hear someone’s story. - Roxane Gay

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as part of their personal brand. When these figureheads say what we want to hear, we put them up on the Feminist Pedestal, and when they do something we don't like, we knock them right off and then say there's something wrong with feminism because our feminist leaders have failed us. We forget the difference between feminism and Professional Feminists.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.