hazelnut

Being a woman: You're born You start feeling fat at 8 even though you look like a normal healthy child You start dieting at 9 Boys treat you badly if they don't like you You grow up, you get to your teens You feel ugly every day You get bombarded with more and more extreme beauty standards every day You grow up, you expect to fall in love You are told every day that cheating is natural in men Married men hit on you Men with children hit on you People value you for your beauty only If you are also intelligent, they still value your beauty more You try your best to believe that some men are different and they care about you in other ways You get news every single day of athletes and famous people and random ordinary people who have cheated You get told all the time that you expire in your 30s-40s You see people saying how "they understand" that some CEO cheated with a more beautiful woman You spend your entire life scared that the man you love might have been settling for you because he couldn't get the "more beautiful" woman he actually wanted Even when you're the "dream woman" of a man, you still get scared that he might cheat because that also happens all the time You're constantly reminded that one day you'll be the "old expired" wife of a man and he might go for younger and more beautiful You're constantly told that you can't "let yourself go" or else you deserve to be cheated on You're constantly the target of anti-aging products ever since you were a teen You get told that the effects of pregnancy will make you undesirable to your husband and he might start seeing you as a baby maker only You get to your 50s and you're constantly dieting while having grown ass immature sons writing stuff on the internet about how women your age are worthless and ugly You grow old and you can't help but feel that your most "valuable" asset (your beauty) will keep slipping through your hands inevitably Your entire life you've been told your only value was how attractive you were and you start feeling worthless Women experience more depression than men Women try more suicide attempts than men and the only reason men die more is because their methods are more aggressive. But women are more suicidal You're old and your husband is now checking teenagers as he walks You will never be enough as a woman. People wonder why women start saying things like "why would I care about what a man wants?" and they use that opportunity to again say that "we're gonna die single because we don't care about being what men want in a woman". Men need to understand that we're tired and that's why the most sane thing we can do is stop caring. It is impossible to be good enough as a woman, so we stop trying to be.