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[Deleted]December 26, 2021

Young women and girls are the most common target for sexual abuse, and it's tone-deaf to claim that we're all just ageist idiots trash talking feminism for male attention. Our culture revolves around priming young girls for sexual objectification and exploitation. I had to go looking for feminism, because I was being force-fed sexist and victim-blaming talking points from childhood. My religion told me to dedicate myself to serving men and pop culture told me to turn myself into an object for their pleasure. Please don't blame young girls for buying into what they're taught.

I'm not saying that ageism, particularly against women, isn't a massive problem, but young women are mocked and discouraged from listening to older women by men. It's not that we're all idiots who think we'll never age, it's that men want to keep young women uninformed and eager to please so they can exploit us, rape us, humiliate us, hurt us, and discard us as soon as they get bored.

proudcatladymad because angryDecember 26, 2021

God. The double-edged sword of religious sexism and then getting hit with the secular sexism. I lived that too and went to bed many nights hoping I didn’t wake up the next day.

[Deleted]December 26, 2021

Either way I felt so dirty and worthless.

proudcatladymad because angryDecember 27, 2021

Yes me too. I absolutely felt like a literal piece of trash. I had this vivid intrusive thought of myself as a plastic trash bag blowing across a grocery store parking lot.