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Zuania Ivaniz

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Just a teen trying to live her dreams
I am me. Zuania Ivaniz.
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gardenr0ses
in my head: constructs witty and insightful answers to interview questions for when I'm famous
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4littlemix

jarpadd:

I suggest all females watch this. 

*i suggest all humans watch this.

THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED WATCHING FOR ALL HUMANS

I’m a 17 year old white guy living in middle class America. I’ve never exactly been a supporter of feminism because that kind of thing has never really affected me personally. I don’t notice it and I don’t care about it. But in nine minutes this video has made what is truly a serious problem extremely apparent. Those “why I need feminism” posts or those slut-shaming or rape culture campaigns never convince me of anything. But this video actually did I think.

tl;dr This video kicks ass, just watch it.

This is an amazing video. Please, please take the time to watch it. 

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breelandwalker

SPOT. ON. This is exactly why feminism…all-inclusive feminism…is so important. It’s important to teach girls from diapers on up that they can be anything that they want to be, that their looks aren’t their sole source of value, and that they have personal autonomy and are allowed to make their own choices, regardless of what a man might think of them. And it’s also important to teach boys that hypermasculinity isn’t their only option, that being effeminate or sensitive to any degree is not a crime, that treating women like objects is harmful, and that it really isn’t the end of the world if women hold positions of influence and power.

And taking it further, this sort of outreach needs to happen to show children and young people (and adults) that differences in gender and sexuality and race are not reasons for exclusion; that there are people in the world besides wealthy, white, cis-gendered, heterosexual men who have voices and opinions and needs and rights that must be considered and respected.

Rosario Dawson nailed it. We need more women in media and we need more People of Color and we need more non-cis gender representation and more non-heterosexual representation….and not tropes or stereotypes, it needs to be POSITIVE.

Because if kids don’t see it, if we don’t tell the status quo “No, YOU move” so that they have reason to believe things can be different, how can we expect things to get better?

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zuaniaivaniz

Wow... This was sort of shocking to me me, in a way.