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One thing I've been dealing with for, well, YEARS is that I don't consider anything I've done particularly extraordinary, or that I'm particularly good at anything, or that I've had any particularly spectacular accomplishments.
I always hated the self evaluations in pharmacy school and job applications where you have to say what your strengths are. I don't have any. I'm not very good at anything in particular. (Answering the weaknesses question is infinitely easier.)
Culture tells us (women) that our accomplishments, our achievements, our talents, our lives are worth less than men's, worthless. Women who say "Fuck yeah, I'm awesome" are called braggarts and told "quit talking, start doing."
Society, men, the patriarchy, has been telling women to be modest, not to brag, and to shut up and quietly do your scut work while we ignore your PhD in nuclear engineering/six published novels/successful costume direction for three shows and give the job to the men.
Women need to be able to, to be free to, say "fuck yeah, I'm awesome" without other women policing them and telling them to sit quietly and be more modest. We get that bullshit enough from men.
I always hated the self evaluations in pharmacy school and job applications where you have to say what your strengths are. I don't have any. I'm not very good at anything in particular. (Answering the weaknesses question is infinitely easier.)
Culture tells us (women) that our accomplishments, our achievements, our talents, our lives are worth less than men's, worthless. Women who say "Fuck yeah, I'm awesome" are called braggarts and told "quit talking, start doing."
Society, men, the patriarchy, has been telling women to be modest, not to brag, and to shut up and quietly do your scut work while we ignore your PhD in nuclear engineering/six published novels/successful costume direction for three shows and give the job to the men.
Women need to be able to, to be free to, say "fuck yeah, I'm awesome" without other women policing them and telling them to sit quietly and be more modest. We get that bullshit enough from men.
