so many grown men are confused and threatened by teenage girls whose fame has nothing to do with their appearance and everything to do with their intelligence, as this means they can't be dismissively reduced to the former or reassuringly infantalised into lacking the latter
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and if you have to take ONE teenage girl seriously for making well-founded, passionate arguments that are inconvenient to your personal conception of the world, then you might have to listen to OTHERS, too - and that way lies madness! better to froth in impotent rage instead.
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ultimately what these dudes who are angry at outspoken teenage girls are saying is, "IF SHE'S NOT FOR ME, THEN WHAT IS SHE FOR??" and really that tells you everything you need to know about the intersection of misogyny and politics
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