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Within any group or demographic, criticism has to come from the inside in order to be respected. Nobody likes to feel that an outsider, who has no idea what it’s like to be them, is making generalizations and broad judgments. This is true of race, religion, socioeconomic groups and—of course—gender. If you’re a man who has ever been ridiculed for saying something that you believe is true about women—and something you’ve even heard women say about women—you may ask, “What? So I can’t say it, but women can?” That is correct, sir. Because when you say it, you’re taking it out of context. You don’t understand all of the inner workings that make those things true, what those truths are connected to, and what they mean to us. Here are things only women can say about women (so stop saying them, men).
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Women love to shop
Yes, but it’s not because we are superficial or money-obsessed, which is what men tend to mean when they say this. Shopping is a creative outlet for a lot of us. When we shop, we pick out pieces that express different parts of our personality. When we shop with our friends, we talk about all the fun things we’d like to do in the outfits. Shopping is a medium through which we daydream, talk about our goals, and discuss our personalities.
