vagina-dialogues:

Full offense but my life improved 5000% when I started taking everything that men have to say with an enormous grain of salt. I’m not exaggerating – male professors, friends, romantic partners (back when I dated men), authors of pieces that I get assigned to read… all men. Part of the way male supremacy works is that it socializes women to question their own reality, and conditions us to allow our voices to be subsumed by the ever-present male “voice of reason”. Allow yourself to be skeptical, even if it’s just privately, in your own head. Take your voice seriously.