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Ilsa

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1. I'm so glad I came of age during the

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:47 AM

Sep 21

"eat shit" generation of young women who had no interest in paternalism and authoritarianism. And I am truly grateful for the suffragettes and feminists who came before me.

It burns me to see the brainwashing that goes on in Dominionist and white "christian" nationalists' homes and cultures. I'm pleased when I hear stories of women escaping it.

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