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Guilty of dwelling on melancholy as much as dwelling on happiness. I guess that's included in the package of a typical sentimental with thoughts creeping up at her every now and then. Not hinting that guys don't care as much, perhaps it's just the part where girls usually are the ones who are more affected and we show it, either expressly or implicitly

We think, but we don't over-think. We analyze/emphasize, not over-think. Sure, it may appear like a pea-sized issue to you guys, but to us, it isn't just a small issue that we can shrug it off our shoulders. It doesn't consume (don't let it) us, but it does affect us and our feelings. The most perfect and simple example which most of us girls can relate to will probably be appearance issue. 

Us: "I feel so ugly." "Ya, cause I'm not as good looking as her.", etc
Them: "You are just over-thinking."

We, over-thinking? No, there's some factor that did spark off this line of thought. Over-thinking is brooding over some thing that is non-existent. Some thing sparked off this thought of ours. It may be you commenting on how gorgeous other girls look or us seeing nasty comments on how a girl looks on social media when she's just a plain Jane, like us. Whatever reason it is, some thing sets us off thinking negatively about our own appearance. So no, we aren't over-thinking, there is a reason or reasons why our thoughts even wondered off in that particular direction. 

We're good analysts, not some girl on pms mode. Understand that girls, like guys, do have their gloomy days so don't go attributing it on our pms or 'over-thinking shit' when such days come. You don't hear us attributing your huge ego & pride or insensitivity to the sperms produced by your male sex organ, do you? 


“Most girls are relentlessly told that we will be treated how we demand to be treated. If we want respect, we must respect ourselves.

This does three things. Firstly, it gets men off the hook for being held accountable for how they treat women. And secondly, it makes women feel that the mistreatment and sometimes outright violence they face due to their gender is primarily their fault. And thirdly, it positions women to be unable to speak out against sexism because we are made to believe any sexism we experience would not have happened if we had done something differently. 

I cannot demand a man to respect me. No more than I can demand that anybody do anything. I can ask men to be nice to me. But chances are if I even have to ask he does not care to be nice. I can express displeasure when I’m not being respected. But that doesn't solve the issue that I was disrespected in the first place. I can choose to not deal with a man once he proves to be disrespectful and/or sexist. But even that does not solve the initial problem of the fact that I had to experience being disrespected in the first place. 

As a young girl, I wish that instead of being told that I needed to demand respect from men that I had been told that when I am not respected by men that it’s his fault and not mine. But that would require that we quit having numerous arbitrary standards for what it means to be a “respectable” woman. It would mean that I am not judged as deserving violence based on how I speak, what I wear, what I do, and who I am.”

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