Fellow women (mostly white women, but this message could apply to others as well), let me be serious with you for a minute.

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Anytime you don't like a woman because her voice grates on your nerves, or you don't like her hobbies, choice in music, or the way she dresses, or her body size/shape, or she's too assertive, or she's achieved things that you don't think she deserves ...

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... or because of things that are literally lies about her, or you just don't know why ... 99% chance that's internalized misogyny.

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If the woman in question is not white, there also could be some unconscious racial bias at work. (Don't get defensive; we ALL have to work on that, me included. It is systemic. Calm down, I'm not calling you a racist.)

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Sisters, we have been trained to hate ourselves. You can't dislike another woman simply for being a woman and not have that steal some of your own shine.

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I'm saying this now because the first woman VP is about to walk into the White House and work very hard on behalf of us all. This is a historic moment. Kamala Harris is accomplished, she is Black, she is Indian, she is a woman. Learn to celebrate her. Learn to celebrate us.

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And for any men reading this: understand that if you dislike a woman for any of the reasons I mentioned above, that's misogyny. If you don't want to be misogynistic, work on it. You can do better. We can all grow. She will be your VP too.