Yet.
It's International Women's Day across the world!
How could I not write about this?
In a world where people do work on their phones and send it in while on the train to their office and teenagers become famous by uploading videos to YouTube, it's amazing to see how far we, as humans, have come.
Technology is, in my mind, one of the biggest areas in terms of visibly seeing our affect on the world.
If you don't count global warming, that is.
Which a lot of people don't.
But that isn't my point.
This post is about women's rights.
Which brings me back to technology.
As amazing as it is to see how far we've come in that regard, it's disappointing to think that we still live in a world where a woman is questioned for running for President because she's a grandmother. How will she govern? How will she make fair decisions for America when she has a grandchild?
Let's forget her decades of work in politics or her educational background or her years of experience as First Lady and, instead, focus on the fact that she's a grandmother.
The thing is, as far as we've come in these last few years in so many different areas, we've not progressed very far in terms of equality.
Women still don't make as much as men for the same jobs and we are constantly being criticized on so many different levels.
And I'm not just talking about by political leaders or people of power.
Women get picked on, by other women, for going to work when they have kids or choosing a career over family but we also get bullied for not going to work when we have children or working from home when we have a family.
It doesn't matter what you do as a woman because you'll get criticized.
Now, I'm not blaming any one person or group of individuals - as much as I would love to blame Donald Trump for every injustice in the world and have him sent to Azkaban for all of eternity - for all of this because it's not the fault of any one person; it's women.
Women are a huge part of the problem and a lot of people are too scared to admit that.
We want rights and we deserve them but we need to change our own attitudes and perceptions first.
Let's stop hating on women for not doing what we think they should and support women for whatever it is they choose to do.
You don't want kids? Don't have them.
Want to stay at home with your children and be there full-time for them? Awesome! Let's support that!
Whatever you choose to do as a woman, let's applaud that!
You don't need to be compared to anyone else and you are not someone else's opinion of you.
This goes for overweight women, slimmer women, girly women and tomboys.
Because every woman has been judged for some aspect of themselves.
As Emma Watson has said:
"I don't want other people to decide who I am; I want to decide that for myself."
Let's give women the power to decide who we are for ourselves and be proud of each and every one of our individualities because every person in this world is worth something.
Every person.
Hillary is just one example of why we still need to go a long way in terms of women's equality and feminism but we are making progress.
This has been a long time coming and I'm not saying we haven't made any progress because we have and that's important to note.
So have fun celebrating women today and let's continue to teach ourselves and every woman we know to support other women.
Jessica
xoxo
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