You do not need to apologize for your intelligence.
The number of times I have been attacked, shamed, ridiculed, mansplained, dismissed, unfriended, laughed at, yelled at, punished, humiliated, ignored, told to be quiet, told I talk too much, all because I am a woman with a brain, intelligence, and savvy, and am highly capable of critical and creative thought is an enormous amount of times.
Because this trash is normalized. It spreads rapidly, sometimes almost imperceptibly, through our culture, society, community, family.
We are “uncomfortable” with intelligent women being intelligent – exploring and displaying their intelligence unapologetically in their daily lives.
In public.
In full view.
Out loud.
So we patronize them.
We minimize them.
Cut them off.
Cut them down.
And so we women have to lean into that discomfort. Press it. Make them feel it. Don’t let up. Wake up. Pay attention to what is really happening when…
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Be proud of your intellect, bimbos are ten a penny!
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You Cracked me up!! Love your comment, “Bimbos are ten for a penny!!” Ain’t that the truth! Same goes for Bozos!!!
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