For the longest time I refused to use Twitter because I had very important things to say that could not be confined to a unforgiving word count. Then I begrudgingly sold my thoughts, ideas, and overall wittiness to the social media leviathan (follow me: @leahreuber). While I don't tweet with any sort of consistent pattern, I do occasionally find myself writing a long ass series of tweets related to a singular topic. Most of the time these are inane and absurd, such as my recent tweet series on foods that would be served in a Hell themed restaurant (ex: the Antipasti Christ), and sometimes they are poignant. Last night I caught myself tweeting one of these series which I became more and more invested in as the words became more and more intentional. This tweet series was centered around how the media sensationalizes every god damn thing women do in an attempt to appear pro-woman or feminist. Instead the outlets just come off as pandering and pedantic; fervently attempting to let subscribers know that they too, think of women as people sometimes. I have the firm belief that if we collectively stopped aggrandizing normal behaviors and functions these mythical "women" creatures will stop being fabricated minor characters in the scene and start being leads in the play. Below are the tweets that made up the tweet series and call out the bullshit that the media use to catapult themselves out of the overtly misogynistic narrative and into the covertly misogynistic narrative.
"Feminist" things the media can stop reporting on in order to actually be feminists:
People having babies.
Women's body types: thin or thick.
Women doing literally anything unrelated to gender.
Women being shitty to each other.
Women being good to each other.
Women getting haircuts.
Women enjoying things that are enjoyable.
Women being single.
Women exploring multiple relationships over any given period of time.
Women expressing their own gender.
Women expressing their own sex and sexuality.
Women enjoying their sexuality.
Breastfeeding.
Women being good at stuff.
When women and womanhood is no longer portrayed as one dimensional, suddenly being a woman is considered normal and not some achievement unlocked by being awarded a participation award.
