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Defend the women around you. Defend the fictional women. Defend the real women. Defend complicated women, angry women, sad women. Defend a world in which women can be not-men in a way that’s not punitive, can be people, can be anything. Consume media created by women. Surround yourself with women — not “surround yourself with strong women,” as the saying often goes, because a) we’re not under a societal obligation to be strong and b) how offensive, to qualify women like that as if we are, inherently, not strong. Fill your eyes and ears and heart with a chorus of female voices and know, above all, that there is room for all of them.
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