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    Default IT'S INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

    Today is International Women's Day! And since there are so many amazing women on this site, I wanted to say thank you to you all for being here and making EoFF awesome!


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    I'm very disappointed that my University isn't marking the occasion with anything, actually. Pretty poor showing, which is incredible knowing that about 70% of my university's student body is female.

    But yes! Women are great, and undervalued still in most societies, even if that is improving. Women also make EoFF great, like Fynn said, so thanks for the EoFF staff's women for keeping the place together, and all the other members for filling up the forums with great posts.


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    I don't really need to be thanked for just being a woman, I'd rather be thanked for my accomplishments as a person but uh thank you because the intention is positive!

    So yay for having a vagina!

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    Well, of course, that was the intention! Pumpkin, you do so much for the site!

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    hey girls, i'm glad you exist

    asexual reproduction sounds like the most boring thing in the world
    everything is wrapped in gray
    i'm focusing on your image
    can you hear me in the void?

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    Sucks to be you MALES haha

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    Big up to the women out there who face the struggle every day!

    To the women working 2 jobs to raise their children, to the women battling women's cancers, to the women pregnant and unable to get an abortion, to the young women being forced into marriages, to the women being sold into the illegal sex trafficking trade.

    It's easy to say 'Happy International Women's Day!' and leave it at that, but if you really want to 'celebrate' it, listen to the women in your life, listen to their stories and understand their struggles, and try and put yourself in their shoes and get an understanding of the many things we face everyday! Not at all a criticism of this thread, I'm just saying!

    My wish as a woman today, is that you all go and speak to a woman in your life and just listen to her, ask her about her struggles - but also her accomplishments and dreams and aspirations.

    Thank you to all the strong women out their paving the way for the rest of us, but thanks as well to the women just treading that path!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    hey girls, i'm glad you exist

    asexual reproduction sounds like the most boring thing in the world
    Congrats to all the weiners.

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    Agreed with Night Fury. Also make an effort to acknowledge the women in your life on a more regular basis and seek to educate yourself and learn more about a lot of struggles women still face in many societies in the world. Do some volunteer work at a woman's shelter, join a big sister program to help a little girl who may not have a strong female role model have someone positive to look up to, and find some other things in your community you can do to help out. It doesn't need to be woman's day to tell your moms and sisters and wives and girlfriends and friends and whomever has an impact on your life that you appreciate them and what they do!

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    Oh oh oh and more just because!

    To the women who feel like this day isn't for you - maybe because you feel like you aren't a woman who has accomplished or done much, let me tell you, you have! You have waded through the patriarchal bulltrout this far - whether you knew it was there or not, you've made it this far being you, and that's amazing. Especially when we're constantly told we need to be a lady in the street, and a freak in the bed. Or that we have to have Jennifer Lawrence's legs, a Kardashian ass, big boobs and tiny hips. That we have to look natural, but shouldn't wear NO make up because heaven forbid! That we should dress demurely but we should at least show a little something otherwise we're oppressed. We should have long flowing hair, perfectly curled. That we should just get in the kitchen and make a sandwich! That we should just smile, what's the worst that could happen? You know, that we should just be EVERYTHING!

    Through all that, you're still you, and you're awesome! You might not have come up with the cure for cancer, written a best selling novel, got a Grammy. You are you and that's the biggest accomplishment of all.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Night Fury View Post

    It's rather ironic bringing up a Supernatural GIF, seeing how the number of women who die in that programme is almost laughable.


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    Well, it's true! Let's all take a moment to mourn the ladies of SPN. Mostly just Pam though, because we're all kind of Pam deep down.



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