joannechocolat:

Real women are strong.

Real women are weak.

Real women drink beer.

Real women eat salad.

Real women are disabled.

Real women are able-bodied.

Real women are skinny.

Real women are fat.

Real women do martial arts.

Real women have mental illnesses.

Real women are beautiful.

Real women are ugly.

Real women wear pink.

Real women wear black.

Real women enjoy sex.

Real women are victims of sex crimes.

Real women like men.

Real women like women.

Real women have careers.

Real women raise families.

Real women have abortions.

Real women are pro-life.

Real women wear crop-tops.

Real women wear the niqab.

Real women are unemployed.

Real women are leaders of men.

Real women are diverse.

Real women can change the world.

Women have worked hard to stop men from telling them what a woman is meant to be.

So, feminists, let’s stop using the phrase “real women”, as if there were a right and a wrong way to be a woman. 

All women are real.