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Who told you I wasn't free?

Woman With Hijab by Rosie The Riveter Everyone is free to do whatever they want unless you’re a woman, there are quite a few limitations to that... Everyone is free to practice their faith without getting called out for it, unless you’re a Muslim –woman-… Everyone is free to wear whatever they want, however they want, as long as they mind their own business, -that is of course- unless you’re a veiled Muslim woman.  It’s like the tri-factor of doom in this day and age; because while people scream and chant for equality, for acceptance, for global freedom, some are chanting it in the faces of those who need not be freed of anything but the constant stares, the trials at forced freedom of bounds only existing in the heads of those trying to free them. We need education before anything else, globally . Being a feminist has become quite the trend if I might say, but being a veiled feminist? God forbid! You need to be freed at first sister! I understand...

Afterthoughts - Anna and the French Kiss

So I am starting a new thing where I write posts based on certain books or movies, be it impressions, afterthoughts, or general things I seem to get out of the book/movie. Because I think no two people ever get the same thing out of the same book/movie, it’s always different based on your personal beliefs, experiences, etc… So without further ado, here is the first one!  --- -“he talks until it’s as if he weighs an entire person lighter...”    - “we keep talking and then talk some more..” I wonder why do writers always use such expressions in books, it actually kind of annoys me; mentioning the notion of talking – deep talking - to someone without really going into detail about the actual conversation they have/had. As a naturally curious person, I would actually like to hear/read more about those talks. I want to see and understand what it is like to feel like you can talk to this particular person forever without really running out of t...