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You Are Powerful, You Are Smart, You Are A Woman.

Stop putting women against other women.

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You Are Powerful, You Are Smart, You Are A Woman.
Samantha McCarty

To any woman who likes to put women against other women:

Stop.

"Cat-fights" are not funny. Slut-shaming is not funny. Taking away a woman's self confidence is not funny. PUTTING WOMEN AGAINST EACH OTHER IS ALSO NOT FUNNY.

It's not that difficult to mind your own business, to be honest. It sounds hard, but in reality, it's quite simple.

If you see a woman who posts a photo of themselves on social media that is raunchy, don't slut-shame.

If you see a bigger woman in the gym who is trying to better herself and partake in a healthy lifestyle, do not make jokes.

If you're at the beach and you think the bikini a woman is wearing is "not right for her body," keep it to yourself, and then remind yourself that you are not the one who decides what someone can and cannot wear.

Do you know how much women are judged already? It's 2016. If a woman, or anyone for that matter, wants to post a provocative photo of themselves online, who are you to tell them that they are not respecting themselves enough? If someone is that comfortable in their body to post a photo like that, then they must have self-confidence, and NO ONE has the right to take that away from anyone, especially a woman.

It's hard enough as it is for a woman to feel comfortable in her own skin, especially when walking past advertisements of models in flawlessly done makeup, listening to people on television commercials saying how it's almost spring break, and how "you can't have a bikini without the bikini body!"

Women are already told how to dress by school codes, work codes, societal codes, etc. You don't need to chime in with how you feel she should look.

If I had a daughter, I would rather her look at Kim Kardashian's Instagram and say, "Wow! She has curves, and she's not afraid to show it!" than for her to watch TV and ask me why she "isn't pretty like the girls on the show."

Women need to start protecting other women. Just because you wouldn't do something doesn't give you the right to judge someone else for it.

And to any woman who is feeling low on confidence, low on hope, and low on every level of mental stability: You are a fighter. You are smart. You are empowering.

You are a woman. You are capable of great things.

Keep women feeling confident, and keep up the good fight.

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