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Anastasiya, you are The feminist, right?
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Yes. I am.
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I know you fight for women’s rights and want equality and equity, and
want to be strong… I know… I know… emotionally and internally strong. I read it
in your blog. (She smiled)
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Yes.
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But if you are strong… emotionally… do you cry? Do feminists cry?
The
answer is Yes. They do. We do. I do.
I,
Feminist, cried Today. Some people might be very rude by saying, “You are a
(Women in Psychology) representative and you have to proofread your emails. Who
chose you (so sarcastic)?” or “Your grammar suck… and you are studying at
Columbia?” or “You have to learn English first and then write.” I did not know
what bullying, sounds too strong, let’s say – mockery is until this year…
People are talking about tolerance and Syrian refugees, language barriers and
borders complications but people do not think what they say to people –
refugees. People who forced to leave their houses for better life are not
people who leave their houses voluntary. They are two different layers of
population!!! Some may be tolerant but some may be very rude and ignorant of
other’s feelings. My question is how this other
may teach, promote tolerance and talk or debate about this tolerance?
I,
Feminist, cried Today because I thought that I can inspire and empower others
and help them to pass this period of their lives when language, culture and
fears are not barriers but, today, I realized that I am still this immigrant
with fears, language barriers and have not
being accepting syndrome. Every time when I hand my paper, submit any
proposals or proofread an email, I have this feeling of not being accepted
because of the language barrier and grammar mistakes. Some of you (who knows
me) may say that language is not a major thing but it is still the major thing
for others. What can we do? How can
we stop it? Do we have to start from ourselves and stop others when they want to laugh at people who cannot express their
feelings in English? Do we have to bring them to our foreign language company and show them how to be a minority in
Russian, Chinese, Afghan or other community?
I,
Feminist, cried Today… and I Stopped. One of my good friend, professor, told me
once, “When people are going to upset you, open your resume, diary, pictures
and look at them. You are beautiful, young, smart woman who WILL do great
things. What about people? People sometimes are poor educated and they do not
know in reality what immigration is.” I cried but I stopped because Feminists
can cry but not too long. Why? Because they, we, I are fighters… no, no, I am
not going to fight with this people. I will fight with the stigma and inability
to understand how your shoes might be uncomfortable and how would you put
yourself in ours and walk a mile.
I,
Feminist, Smile now because the life is SO unpredictable and may give you
people who can inspire you and may give you people who make you strong, force
you to move on and show you that you are on the right track. And… yes…
Feminists Cry. We are Strong but we are Humans. If you have people who put you
down, remove this people from your surroundings. You do not need them… There
will be jewels in your surroundings that will inspire, help and believe in you…
so, my advice is replace others to
jewels and you will shine because jewels produce jewels.
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