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Happy International Women's Day, Humans!

I am a woman in this modern world, and with that comes a lot of rage within my soul. In the past few years, there has been an outpouring of support and solidarity between women, with the #metoo movement, the calls to end victim blaming, and just general support that we NEED to be providing to one another. However, there have also been infuriating moments, like all of the ridiculously short sentences (or lack of ANY sentencing) for men who have been found guilty of assaulting women. There is a fire that is burning that we have been trained by society to keep to ourselves, because otherwise we are "hysterical women". We have a president in power of the United States, the land of the free and home of the brave, who has admitted to assaulting women and not caring at all about it. There are men and women who have spoken out in support of this monster, saying the same old horrifying, and frustrating statement of "boys will be boys" or "it's just locker room talk