Florence Given

Alchemizing that shame and using it to compost and grow beautiful flowers and grow into an even more fucking beautiful version of yourself.

But a few years ago...

I decided, what if I lean the fuck in to my annoyingness?

This inherent fear of being annoying, of being too much, of talking too much, of taking up too much space, of dancing to whatever, of being annoying and having opinions and being loud and having a fucking podcast and posting videos of myself online.

What if...

Actually, the reason that that was something that was shamed and poked at in me isn't because it's inherently fucking embarrassing.

It's because my freedom triggered other women.

And I'm saying other women because even though...

Like, I don't even have men.

Men just don't talk about me like that.

They just don't.

Because men, they're more direct.

Women are covert and passive.

And so that the way women mask their envy or their anger is through moral righteousness.

She's taking up too much space.

How dare she?

She's so annoying.

She's so this, she's so that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's a socially acceptable way for women to like process and regulate themselves when they feel uncomfortable emotions.

So yeah, I am talking about women and women in this scenario.