“You’re Overthinking It.”

Why ‘Strong Women’ Is Not a Compliment

“If she didn’t feel safe, she shouldn’t have gone.”

When We Say ‘Feminism Has Gone Too Far’

The absurd sentence commonly arrives painted as moderation. It’s rarely angry. Oftentimes, it’s shaped as concern - for fairness, for equilibrium, for reason. It insinuates that feminism once had an apparent purpose, conceivably, even an admirable one, but has now transcended it. As if equality were a road with a marked finish line, and feminism forgot to halt.

‘She Should Have Known Better’ - Should She?

It’s a sentence that slips into conversations and goes unnoticed more often than we tend to notice. You hear it after a woman faces harassment, fails at a job, makes a choice others would openly disagree with, or experiences any sort of a setback. On the surface, it sounds like common sense, maybe even a cautionary note, being pasted on her forehead like a sticky note with black ink. But beneath that simplicity lies a quiet, relentless mechanism of judgment.