There have been situations in my life I have felt that there is clear inequality. However, if I speak up to these things, even in a mature manner then accusations of being a feminist, or trying to suppress men come to me upfront. Not just from men, but even from other women.

One such example is that during elementary school in Greece, you are forced to go to Church, and at the time, at least, where I lived you would risk getting expelled for not going. During school hours, we had to go to church in some occasions, once or twice per semester. What was the issue is that in the Orthodox religion, females have specific areas for them in a church, and also we weren't allowed to wear pants, but had to wear skirts.

I spoke up about it, and I was shot down by my friends. My parents understood, and from there and on, if the need was raised then I would have simply refused to go to church with the school. I was in elementary at the time. My father insisted to some extent as he is a man that loves his culture, before understanding the awkwardness of being forced into this.

You might think that this is silly-- after all, who doesn't like skirts? The issue is not about wearing skirts, but that the school itself, with the church; in Greece, the ministry of education is called Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and goes hand-to-hand with the Greek Orthodox Church. They wanted to put me in line, to fit their image of a woman that gives into their demands of an iconic feminine figure.

If people--society attempted with all their heart to twist your emotions, your personality, your preferences then wouldn't you fight back? If violence was used against you then wouldn't you be thirsty for vengeance? I am a human being, and I suffered because of a backwards-thinking society, that only recently made some improvements.

I don't want men or women to suffer from such imposed societal images, prospects, to be forced to wear certain clothing, to be put in a line where they have no freedoms, or their qualities are forced to be different based on traditions that do not belong in today's world.

If you believe that after all this I am some mad-hating mongrel like the silly bitches on tumblr then may it be so. However, I sleep at night knowing that I want to coexist with people, I try to tolerate what's possible to tolerate, and if I am pushed to the limit I will speak up, and even resort to the violence.