dork-bending:

Woman can be emotionally abusive



Women can be physically abusive



Women can be verbally abusive

Women can be this way to people of any gender.

Woman can be intentionally abusive please don’t pretend this isn’t true. Especially if you call yourself a feminist.

This is so important. Tumblr needs to stop pretending that all women are angels and all men are demons.

I’ve seen posts on here that imply that women can do absolutely no wrong. There’s one post in particular that basically says “IMAGINE A WORLD WITH ONLY WOMEN! EVERYONE WOULD BE ABLE TO WALK AROUND SAFE AT NIGHT AND COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER AND BE HAPPY ALL THE TIME AND THERE WOULD BE NO BAD THINGS!” As if all troubles of the world are caused by men and men alone. And there’s this post of a Mexican drug lord who has caused the deaths hundreds of innocent people and smuggled illegal substances for years, causing chaos and spreading fear in her home country - but because she’s a woman, people on Tumblr add captions like “omg goals!” and “what a badass lady!” even though she’s a felon.

NO. Women can be just as mean-spirited, just as messed up, just as violent, and just as plain evil as men can be. This is because women are just as complex as men are - we are not all good just as not all men are bad. In fact, reducing all women to perfect, nonviolent, and nice little flowers is dehumanizing and surprisingly sexist. It perpetuates the stereotype of the pure little angelic female that women have had to deal with for centuries. It’s not accurate, it’s not cute, and IT’S NOT FEMINIST.

There are female serial killers. There are female rapists. There are female abusers. None of this is debatable and no one should ever be let off the hook for something abhorrent that they did simply because they are female.

To pretend that women are inherently always nice and that men are inherently always evil is to indulge in a delusion.