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This Instagram Account Is All About Empowering And Entertaining Women, And Here Are 35 Of Its Best Posts
International Women's Day is on the 8th of March, but one Instagram account thinks that we need to expand the occasion and celebrate it all year long.
It's called 'Unwomanly', and as its bio says, the account is dedicated to sharing entertaining and educational content on female empowerment.
From dating to careers and everything in between, 'Unwomanly' touches on a wide variety of subjects and paints quite an inspiring picture.
Continue scrolling to check it out, and don't miss the conversation we had about women's role in today's world with licensed clinical social worker Megan Logan.
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"Women's empowerment involves a radical shift towards knowing our gifts and strengths and then fully embracing them to boldly show up in the world," Logan, author of the 'Self-Love Workbook For Women: Release Self-Doubt, Build Self-Compassion, and Embrace Who You Are', told Bored Panda.
"No longer playing small to make others comfortable or holding back due to internalized negative beliefs about ourselves as women in society."
According to Logan, who has developed strong clinical skills providing therapy in a variety of mental health settings for over two decades, it's important to remember that fully embracing yourself does not happen magically overnight.
"It takes consistency and intention," she said. "The first step involves believing you matter enough to learn, grow, and create a self-love practice. This repetition allows us to rewire our belief system and change the way we see ourselves, creating a new pathway for authenticity and living in your whole truth."
"Challenging and releasing negative self-doubt and critical self-talk makes space for self-compassion. Learning to set healthier boundaries, talking more kindly to ourselves, prioritizing self-care, and digging in deep to heal those wounded parts allows for the resiliency and consistency that it takes to show up and share your light in the world," Logan added.
omg these comments...how many "not all men" varieties r gna show up 😬 Yall we got headaches and can't read negativity today
Since 2006, the Global Gender Gap Index has been measuring the extent of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Tracking the progress towards closing these gaps over time, it reports benchmarks and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across and within regional peers.
According to its 2020 findings, there is still a 31.4% average gender gap that remains to be closed globally.
Yeah, we don't want to suffocate under the weight of your collective disapproval
Across the four characteristics, on average, the largest gender disparity lies within political empowerment. Despite being the most improved dimension that year, the gap on this subindex has only been closed by 25%, meaning there are still not enough women occupying seats in government across the world.
However, it's important to note that the political empowerment subindex fails to measure the legal rights of women and girls in comparison to those of men, which plays a significant role in determining the extent to which a society is equal.
That's what all predators & abusers say. I remember about the Larry Nassar case; as he realized the IndyStar investigation would expose him, he started begging the journalists not to publish it because "it would ruin his life". Not a word about the lives of HUNDREDS of little girls he had been sexually abusing for almost 2 decades.
there are males who do nothing around the house, and they’re still adorable. they’re called babies. BABIES DO THIS. and various pets.
I have never heard of a man being referred to as cute because he couldn’t handle basic life skills ever.
well it’s like when facebook moms are like ‘aww he’s so helpless’ about their husbands
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My man can’t cook, BUT he tries his best and he insists on cooking for me because he wants to, he just never seasons things right or overcooks things, edible by him maybe, he’s been eating it for years, but I can’t eat it without my leg twitching, so I cook for him, he does clean and do laundry.
Not everyone's going to excel at every skill. I learned to cook at a young age out of self defense, because NEITHER of my parents could cook 😂
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Yes. In our household boys are being taught how to change a tire and how to cook and clean. Just part of basic life skills.
But girls need to know how to change a tire too. There may not be a boy/man around to do it for her.
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I'm an a**hole stayed married 48 years to a man that never did a dang thing. Yes he worked an 8-9 hour day, I worked a 12-18 hour day with a 1 hour break to get home and make his dinner and throw a load of laundry in. Then back to work. When my paid work day was done I got home and mowed the lawn two times a week, vacuumed once a week shopped for his clothing when he needed it as he hated shopping and didn't know his size as his mom always bought for him. the guy would not even hold the ladder for me while I cleaned the gutters. So much more to this story ugh. I was taught that I must look after my husband. He Passed away 2019 I am finding myself now I don't even know who I am. But am enjoying the ride. I can honestly say I do not want anyone ever in my life again that I am a slave for.
Dated a guy who was divorced and had a six-year old daughter who stayed with him every other weekend, so he seemed to be a responsible adult. We went out dancing and during a slow dance I got lipstick on his collar...queue the cliche. I apologized and he laughed it off. When we got back to the table I told him exactly what to do to get it out. He said "It's OK. My mom will get it out. I drop if off and she does my laundry." My reply was "What? Why???" He told me his mom really enjoyed doing his laundry. He had his own washer and dryer. I did not go out with him again.
THIS!!! My hubby cooks, cleans, is in charge of our kids education... he does everything I do. We truly have an equal marriage. My first husband was a man-child. It's so refreshing to be with a man that stand on his own two feet. Makes being with him so easy!
"I can't be bothered to clean the house, but I don't expect my wife to do it. Just f*****g leave it. Every six months I'll put new carpet down over it." - Steve Harris
Sewing, that's the skill I can't be bothered with. Don't ask my wife to do it either. Let's outsource and I'm happy to pay for it. But fiddeling with needle and thread? It's the worst imo...
Excuse me, I can cook the hell out of my own laundry, and I bet no one's had more mops spontaneous combust than I have. Ladies, gents, form a polite line to date me. (/s, just in case)
You do realize he is like that because of how he was raised, right? He grew up not being taught how to take care of his own basic needs. This is a parenting issue.
I agree with you in part. My mother-in-law was old school, and did pretty much everything in the house, and didn't really teach her sons these things. When my husband went to college, he taught himself all of these things and brought true partnership to our marriage. I think that once one reaches adulthood, the decision needs to be made to learn the things that are necessary to function as a responsible adult, even if you weren't taught it as a child.
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Thee onee thing I did teach my boys was how to take care of basic needs. Cooking cleaning, laundry Ironing, etc.
My husband does everything; cooking, cleaning, etc, and always does his share. BUT I won't let him touch the washing machine; he can help me fold clothes that are dry and put clothes away but I insist on being in charge of washing and drying clothes. He's more than capable of doing this but I won't let him!
My man does nothing around the house, only sleeps and eats. And he only eats specific foods and only if i serve it to him. Then he requires water, cause he won't fetch it for himself. I also have to constantly clean up after him. But all is forgiven because he is the cutest leopard gecko there is <3
Which is exactly why I brought my son up to do things for himself - clean his room, his bathroom, do laundry AND ironing, cook, bake, etc. And I told him it was because I didn't want him to feel he 'had' to get married or have a GF to do things for him. He turned out great, but sometimes I saw he didn't dust often enough, hehe!!
Amen. I made sure my son (and daughter) knew how to cook, clean, iron and sew. I also taught them both how to change a flat tire & the oil in the car. Raising "man babies" is a total failure on the parents.
And girls who aren't raised with self-respect become those women who think this is cute. Again, I think these attitudes will fall to the wayside because today's youth won't put up with these archaic attitudes like the older generations did.
My husband was like that when we got married. I was determined my kids would not be like that My son, who was my youngest, started when he was 2 yrs old, standing on a chair next to me, rinsing dishes while his 2 older sisters put them on the drying rack. Today he is capable of doing all the chores in a home, keeping house for his partner who is also very capable of running a home. Really proud of those two guys.
Can't agree more. My ex was so useless I either spent half my time running around after him or leaving all his s**t lying around the house where he left it and therefore being shouted at for being a lazy housekeeper.
Mothers: tell your children! I taught both my daughter and my son to be able to take care of themselves as adults. My son thanked me for it when he was grown.
When I was single I would tell women that I met that I don't need a woman who can cook , clean and do laundry, I am looking a companion. Some got offended.
What does this author think about women that can't fix or properly maintain things around the house or things they use daily.
This author is likely one of the many, many women who also know how to do those things. Not knowing how to fix a leaky pipe is vastly different from living with someone who is incapable or unwilling to do basic adult chores.
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I loved coming home to a clean house, a cold adult beverage and dinner ready to serve. My husband was a treasure! Whoever had the day off that day, or came home earlier, would do this for the other spouse.
Lol. I do most of these things in my house. My wife makes a huge mess when she cooks, so I prefer to do the cooking and the dishes. I have a particular way of folding clothes so they don't wrinkle, my wife is a drawer stuffer, so I prefer to deal with the laundry. We both clean though, but with three kids it's an ever losing battle.
Comedian Rita Rudner said that men who'd been in the military make the best partners. They can care for their own clothes, clean house, most can do a bit of cooking, and they're used to taking orders.
I think it would be fair to blame it on their parents for not teaching them basic skills? Although it depends on their background, of course.
There was a mathematician who didn't cook for himself and refused to eat anything not prepared by his wife. He was terrified someone was going to poison him. One time she was in the hospital for a few months. He starved to death... Why are so many prominent mathematicians mentally ill?
I did learn to do these things, as I was single until my 40's, and would agree that boys/men need to learn them too. Everyone needs to be able to be self-sufficient, because you never know when you'll be required to be due to circumstances. However, you do realize that there are in fact women who are not similarly self-sufficient, just in different respects. They perhaps graduated from HS and got married, maybe even attended college for a while before finding a partner. Then they got comfortable, took on the role of wife and mother, but didn't really grow to be able to take care of themselves. And though I know some were happy with that life, for others it made them unable to leave if their situation became bad, because they knew they couldn't make it on their own. Both boys/men and girls/women need to learn how to do the things required to live in today's society, not dependent on someone else "taking care of them". Men who can't do this often end up with women who are just used.
The economic and labor market gender gap has been closed by 58%. This is due to the fact that, on average, only 55% of women are participating in the global workforce, and their presence in higher-yielding positions is even lower.
Plus, this disparity is exacerbated by the global wage gap, which affects women across all industries and backgrounds, and has remained relatively stagnant throughout the last five years or so. These components highlight the challenges women face to escape poverty and become financially and economically independent.
At least 35 of the 153 surveyed countries have closed the education gender gap by 96.1%. However, this number varies across education levels.
Globally, girls are less likely to receive an education due to gender-based discrimination, child marriage, and the burden of fulfilling domestic chores, all of which prevent young girls and teens from attending school.
While more young girls and women are attending primary and secondary school, less than half are going on to attend college.
I dunno man....we've seen what these "influencers" do with makeup and filters. If you're talented enough or patient enough you can totally change your look with makeup so isn't it natural there'd be some concern? Sure appearance isn't everything but it does play a role in attraction.
Although the global gender gap for health care and survival has been closed by 95.7%, millions of women worldwide still do not have equal access to health care, especially reproductive health care.
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, vice-president for development at the Brennan Center for Justice, thinks that period poverty and menstrual stigma play significant roles in holding society back from achieving gender equality, highlighting that these barriers can also prohibit them from participating in politics, the workforce, and education.
Haha he's a keeper. I think she might have secretly been a little bit cheered up :)
In order to achieve gender equality and make all of these pictures a thing of the past, countries across the globe must increase the number of women in government, ensure education is accessible to all women and girls, create free or affordable child care so that more women can participate in the labor market, and provide access to safe reproductive health care.
Because of course there is a neon sign over every guy’s head telling women if they’re gonna get raped or not. /s
It's so weird that we call it 'losing' your virginity. You didn't lose anything, on the contrary, you gained something: you have gained a new experience, nothing was lost. Imagine if we called all significant new life experiences losses: if we called going to school for the first time 'losing your toddler-phase', going on a holiday without your parents for the first time 'losing your parent-dependance', moving in with your boyfriend/girlfriend 'losing your aloneness', going to a music festival for the first time 'losing your silence', walking for the first time 'losing your crawling days'. Weird, right? We view those as gaining a new life experience or entering a new phase in your life, so let's talk about sex that way too. Also, I dislike the emphasis on only intercourse. I think, having someone else give you an orgasm for the first time, or you giving someone else one, is just as much a significant new life experience and start of a new phase in your life as having intercourse.
Megan Logan is happy that things are finally moving. "Women have far too long held themselves back with internalized shame-based beliefs from society and cultural imprinting," she said. "We continue to embark on an ever-evolving employment journey. Through the different stages of life and over time, the self-love journey never ends."
"I believe women have become tired of constantly nurturing others without replenishing what makes their hearts and souls happy and fulfilled. While self-empowerment is an individualized journey, it happens on a collective level as well," she said. "As more women do their individual work, self-love can radically change the world we live in. I see this happening all over the globe. My first book, Self-Love Workbook for Women, has been translated into over 18 languages! How amazing that women all over have empowered themselves in learning to evolve and grow!" she said.
If you were there but THEY missed the call, at the time agreed upon, then it is incumbent upon THEM to apologize to you, not the other way around.
I know this is slightly off point, but; When I was a kid, I always thought 'Master' & 'Miss' (short for Mistress) were for before you were married, 'Mr' & 'Mrs' were for after you were married, and 'Ms' was when you were divorced or engaged. I remember finding out that men got upgraded to 'Mr' when they became an adult and assumed the same happened with women. I started calling ALL adult women 'Mrs' until I was corrected on that. 'Sir' & 'Ma'am' got thrown into the mix and I just thought 'This s**t's confusing! Let's just drop it all together'. To this day I still don't like being called 'Mr' or 'Sir'.
The 'You're not like other girls' line should be reserved for use only on those "Alpha Male" douchebags!
One of my favourite things about the time I'm living in is watching women get stronger and madder by the day. Keep it up and smash the patriarchy!
as a man, I'm disappointed in other men for making people need to say this s**t. women shouldn't have to say these things, nobody should
I'm so angry when a woman/mother/grandmother votes to restrict her own rights & the rights of their mothers & sisters & children. And they say they believe they are doing the right thing. For whom?
The fact that you can be intimately assaulted at any given moment in a public place pretty much informs our behavior as women. Every single woman I know has been sexually assaulted, from public boob or butt grabs all the way up to gang rape. Every. Single. Woman.
Men need to hear this more often. Not only public sexual assault, but I know many women who were sexually assaulted by family members as children. It happens so much more than people realize because we don’t talk about it.
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These are really upsetting. I mean, they are no surprise, I have been aware of rape culture fo a long time, but no less distressing.
Are the majority of men just huge a-holes? I'm embarassed to be male. I don't get it. Why do they think they can do this c**p?
There are a lot of good men? But the bad ones can be........ *heavy inhale* really....really, really bad. So just like Droid Mania said, don't be a bad one! the society of good people thanks you
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Sorry, I stopped reading these about half way through. IF you do not want men thinking you are a dumb female wanting sex and saying no as a come on, DO NOT ACT that way!
I was asked by my doctor the other day how old I was. I'm 29. He then proceeded to inform me I still have time to have children. I told him I didn't want any. Then he said I must want children. I told him I'm too sick(not that I need a reason), he told me I was not too sick. I have depression, anxiety, severe PTSD, and I'm on 4 medications and have never been able to work full time because of sickness. But this guy who met me five minutes prior knows that I must have children and that I'm obviously capable. My doctor of all people. I almost wanted to cry cause it's a sensitive issue for me. Screw that guy.
fair warning, it is a TERF account (you'll see that if you go through enough posts)
One of my favourite things about the time I'm living in is watching women get stronger and madder by the day. Keep it up and smash the patriarchy!
as a man, I'm disappointed in other men for making people need to say this s**t. women shouldn't have to say these things, nobody should
I'm so angry when a woman/mother/grandmother votes to restrict her own rights & the rights of their mothers & sisters & children. And they say they believe they are doing the right thing. For whom?
The fact that you can be intimately assaulted at any given moment in a public place pretty much informs our behavior as women. Every single woman I know has been sexually assaulted, from public boob or butt grabs all the way up to gang rape. Every. Single. Woman.
Men need to hear this more often. Not only public sexual assault, but I know many women who were sexually assaulted by family members as children. It happens so much more than people realize because we don’t talk about it.
Load More Replies... These are really upsetting. I mean, they are no surprise, I have been aware of rape culture fo a long time, but no less distressing.
Are the majority of men just huge a-holes? I'm embarassed to be male. I don't get it. Why do they think they can do this c**p?
There are a lot of good men? But the bad ones can be........ *heavy inhale* really....really, really bad. So just like Droid Mania said, don't be a bad one! the society of good people thanks you
Load More Replies... Sorry, I stopped reading these about half way through. IF you do not want men thinking you are a dumb female wanting sex and saying no as a come on, DO NOT ACT that way!
I was asked by my doctor the other day how old I was. I'm 29. He then proceeded to inform me I still have time to have children. I told him I didn't want any. Then he said I must want children. I told him I'm too sick(not that I need a reason), he told me I was not too sick. I have depression, anxiety, severe PTSD, and I'm on 4 medications and have never been able to work full time because of sickness. But this guy who met me five minutes prior knows that I must have children and that I'm obviously capable. My doctor of all people. I almost wanted to cry cause it's a sensitive issue for me. Screw that guy.
fair warning, it is a TERF account (you'll see that if you go through enough posts)
