Caitlin Moran: A Letter to Teenage Girls
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Through ‘How to be a Woman’ and ‘How to Build a Girl’, I’ve met a lot of teenage girls. And a lot of you are struggling.
I wrote this letter to you - remember, you were not born scared, or self-loathing or overwhelmed. And sometimes, girls have to be mothers to themselves. I hope this helps you, no matter what you’re dealing with.
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I cried like a baby, I'm 40. Thank you.
Me too and I’m 51 x
I have met you twice. The first time, I was being horrifically homophobically bullied & was self harming and not eating and couldn't imagine getting through the year. The second time I met you, I was still awful but I was a little bit better. If I ever get to meet you again, I hope I will be able to be one of the girls who got through shit x
It's 3 years later and I just hope that you're doing ok now :)
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. A million times over. - a teenage girl, who really needed to hear this right now.
+rqbecky you got this! its all temporary just chin up and power through the bullshit
I feel like this should just be "A Letter To All Girls" ❤️
I wish I'd seen this at 16 when I was struggling so much, feeling all alone and taking it out on my body in the worst ways. At 24 this still made me cry, even though I'm so much better than I was - I still feel like that lost girl from 8 years ago now and then. Thank you for all you do Caitlin, 'How to be a Woman' means the world to me.
You have stopped an 18 year old girl in her tracks and proved to her that there are good people out there when I got so close on giving up on it all! I have listened to this back to back several times and I know that if anyone comes to me when I make it to my future (which I hope I will) with 'that feeling' I will present them with this because of you, Caitlin, Thank you! x
I'm 22 and needed this. Thank you Caitlin, love, a woman crying as she cooks a curry.
I'm also 22 and after last night Caitlin is what I needed this morning. I hope you feel better and things in your life improve ❤ I bet your curry tastes amazing! I love curry 😘
+Domina Michaela thank you and I hope the same for you ❤️ I didn't realise I needed to hear Caitlin's words until I burst into tears half way through haha ps, my curry was fab
Thankyou! That sucks 😔 Some things get worse after teenage years (some stuff is better!) early 20s is rough and I feel like its supposed to be the best 😣 Ooh yum 😍
I watch this every day, all I can say is thank you! thank you for being you, and thank you for writing as you have made me feel better than anybody else ever has.
God, I cried so much listening to this, it means so much and it touched so deeply
Even though I'm a boy, that really felt personal. Thank you so much. I remember seeing you at one your shows.
such good advice concerning treating yourself like a baby. I always think of myself as my younger self, the 7/8 year old me which was bubbling over with happiness and that I instinctively want to nurture and protect. I would never face that version of me and tell her she is ugly or fat or unworthy, so why should that change now I'm 17?
+Adam Adams what does this have to do with Rotherham rape!?
Rashmi Prakash It's called trolling.
This made me cry. I'm 36 now but teenage me is crying at this. xxx
I have no words. I just have so much love for Caitlin Moran
Than you, thank you for caring about us and helping us when we need it most, love a girl who needed comforting, but is now going to get on with her life.
That made me cry. I wish there was someone to tell me this when I was a teenager, although I learned it eventually I learned the hard way, the long way; by myself.
Not just teenagers, anyone with anxiety. Totally brilliant.
I started crying within five seconds of the video starting. I really needed this right now, thank you Caitlin.
This came at the exact time I needed it I needed this to be told to me because I was starting to go back to who I was last year and that scared me. Maybe I already knew all of this but it made it more obvious and that helped. I know it doesn't solve anything but it is helpful and I will probably come and watch this when I am feeling low. Thank you x
Thank you for this Caitlin...how I wish I could have heard/read this during my last two anxiety-ridden years at school, a few years ago :)
You probably won't see this but thank you. Just thank you for this
This moved me so much. It's everything every teenage girl needs to hear, it's a message that should be spread. Thank you Caitlin, for saying things few won't, or don't know how. :)
I cried and I'm 33 xxx
Caitlin this was fucking lovely. Every teenage girls needs you, your books, your columns, your interviews, your history, all of it. All of it has and will help to build girls who will blossom into wonderful women such as yourself. I hope I meet you one day at a book signing too
I'm never alone when I watch/read this. In my head I'm with you and you're my mom and I cry because it's nice. Thankyou Caitlin xx
this put a lump in my throat and tears are stinging my eyes for darling daughter 18 next week, I've sent the link to her xxx
This is beautiful. Thank you so much for this, Caitlin, I wish I could have heard it a few years back.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO! It has literally gotten me through my GCSE's and is now getting me through my A levels. I don't know what I would do without this video half the time. Thank you, Caitlin! Also surprisingly the phrase "if you can do one minute you can do the next" has actually gotten me through awful ergo tests at rowing. Thank you, Caitlin, for creating this brilliant and lovely video, it is well needed by many and well loved!
Caitlin Moran, you are wonderful and thankyou for this and all your wonderful writings. XXX
I have to share this.Reading Moranifesto just now. you are an inspiration. our young women need to hear this. thank you xx
This brought a tear to my eye. I wish someone was there to tell me that when I was a teenager.
Thank you, Caitlin. This meant to me so much right now. I really needed these 4minutes. You brought me in tears. Loves.
My fouteen, eighteen and twenty-one year old selves needed to hear this. The thirty-three year old me needed to hear this today too!
Oh, Caitlin, this letter is not only for the now teenage girls, but rather; for the teenage girls in all of us. 22 and crying throughout this whole video. Your mind inspires a lot. Keep up the good work, the world will be grateful; I am grateful.
I wish I could have seen this video when I was a teenager. I'm 30 and only now getting on to undoing the damage that the thoughts this video could have reassured me about have done to my life.
Daniel Gould
Better 30 than 31
Thanks Caitlin. I'm 24 though and still feel like this.
this was beautiful..
sometimes it gets hard to smile and pretend to ignore everybody's expectations, voiced or otherwise, they're like small pinpricks poking holes in this wall we've built around our hearts.
this is truly beautiful and even if it' s aspirational enough as it is, it's easier said than done.
seek people out and talk to them, however hard it may seem, holding it in will just fill up the already overflowing dam of emotions, and at breaking point, when all these judgements and comments and expectations will result in a catastrophic tsunami of self hate and anger and depravity that will completely annihilate all that was left of "you".
there is always someone for you, whether you think so or not.
i love you. all of you people who silently suffer, i will be there for you
As someone who was home educated as a child I really feel Caitlin Moran speaks for a minority which I belonged to. This piece made me cry because as a home educated teen I struggled with identity and it only in my twenties I've learnt to love myself. Schooled teenaged most likely go through the same but as steered by their peers. Home educated teens go it alone and that scary.
this was beautiful..
sometimes it gets hard to smile and pretend to ignore everybody's expectations, voiced or otherwise, they're like small pinpricks poking holes in this wall we've built around our hearts.
this is truly beautiful and even if it' s aspirational enough as it is, it's easier said than done.
seek people out and talk to them, however hard it may seem, holding it in will just fill up the already overflowing dam of emotions, and at breaking point, when all these judgements and comments and expectations will result in a catastrophic tsunami of self hate and anger and depravity that will completely annihilate all that was left of "you".
there is always someone for you, whether you think so or not.
i love you. all of you people who silently suffer, i will be there for you.
I'm 23. This video is still very relevant. Thanks for everything, Caitlin.
Our teacher showed this to us at school and no one got it but me so I had to pretend I didn't know what it meant either. But I wish more people knew what it meant just so I could fit in with them and not give away that any of this is relatable.
+Adam Adams sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean? Could you please explain?
This is important and useful for everyone, regardless of age (or gender)!
I've never ever cut my skin with a razor nor have I done anything awful to it but still this video gave me chills. I'm just kinda over my teenage years but I feel like these few minutes had A LOT OF amazing thoughts I could use in my life.
So THANK YOU for giving like the best speech imaginable about 'How to treat yourself' for humanity!
i have just watched this about 10 times and cried continuously. i have so much love for caitlin moran!
I'm 8 days shy of a year clean and this video brought me back to that place, but instead of being that person I was looking in on that person. That sad, scared little girl who only needed a hug and to be told it was going to be ok. The anger and frustration let out in little cuts. The very much internal anxiety attacks, and as it got worse turned into obvious external panic attacks. She just needed to be told she could make it through that time in her life - and she did. She told herself and she convinced herself she could and she has.
I made it to my 18th birthday, which when I was 15 genuinely seemed impossible. I finished my compulsory education. That girl who gave up on her GCSEs because she didn't think she's be alive to need them made it. And boy has it bitten her on the arse. But fuck it. I made it out alive.
That's the most poetic bullshit I've ever written. Third person and all. Check me out. But seriously, thank you Caitlin for this. I really hope kids like 15 year old me will come across this video. At 2am when they have tears streaming down their face because this resonated more than most things.
Crying my heart out. This is beautiful and so so true
I haven't been back to this video for a while but here I am at almost 4am just needing some motherly comfort so I can curl up and try to doze off. Again, Caitlin, I love you and my flowers are still a fortnightly buy after all this time ❤ ⚘
I'm back again. Listening and breathing through
thank you very much! you are such an insightful human being with wonderful kindness. I wish I met you 20 years ago! love from, Portugal.
This made me cry, so lovely. Thank you.
This makes me see things differently, thank you for this Caitlin, saved my head from exploding xx
Oh Caitlin! You're amazing.
I'm 29 and that was the advice I needed right now. xxx
This women amazes me always.
Literally, I buy the times for CW and then i cast it aside to use later, for guinea pig bedding.
Thank you Moran, for your belief in humanity!!
Loved this. Loved this so much.
Wish you'd been around when I was 15 x
oh, how fab. awesome sound sound advice to anyone struggling but my teen-self heard this and thanks you... this is deffo what I needed to hear as a teen.
Your words have really got to me in the best possible way, thank you so, so much
i wish every girl could hear this x
Caitlin this is a powerful poem to all teenagers. I think it speaks to both girls and girls even though the heading is specific. Perhaps you may consider the heading again or invent a similar poem for boys. I am a mother of boys and would say the same to them to value or father themselves...Nice
Thank you so much Caitlin for this! Going to listen to this everyday
You rock Caitlin. You speak so much truth! I hope more women listen.
Thank you
Thank you so much. I really needed to hear this. You are amazing and thank you for reminding me that i am more than my situation.
This VIDEO is fu**ing brilliant. This video is good, good, good, great, amazing, love love love it. Generally speaking I am not lost for words but obviously I am at the moment. Caitlin, THANK YOU for making this video. You've got something special, keep it up.
Thank you so much, for this video its so helpful. thank youXx
Absolutely what I needed to hear, thank you so much
Caitlin I absolutely fucking love you and this, this made me cry. Perfect advise, something I wish I'd been told at 16. Never stop being perfect.
My eyes are sweating
Made me cry x
Very thought provoking.
Thank you. I even need to hear these things at my age. (old)
thank you so much for this, Caitlin!!
Tears, hopefully one day I'll be as great as you xxx
Thank you soooo muchhhhh
Such great advice. You are incredible!
this was so beautiful, thank you caitlin
This is wonderful advice.....
0:55 I'm already tearing up.
Hi, I've listened to this allot in the last few hours and it is a really lovely letter. One of my best friends has been sectioned and I can only send her letters and this letter is something I'd really like her to read. Does anyone know of a transcript of this? or do I just have to write it out? (of course credited to Ctalin and the book, i'm too much of a fan not to tell as many people who will listen about her)
This is amazing! Xx
This is a nice message, but it's awful advice to tell girls to steal flowers. Thank you Caitlin for your encouragement.
I love you, Caitlin. You beautiful girl :).
had I heard these words some time earlier would I have listened?
This is so good
❤❤❤
Couldn't think of anyone i'd be less likely to recommend that my teenage daughter takes advice from. Most of the problems faced by teenage girls are caused by the spitefulness of other teenage girls or the anxiety inducing effect of feminist ideology that teaches them to fear men as their oppressors.
this is beautiful
I am in love with Caitlin Moran
such a genius.
you are so beautiful thank you
Oh god ... dont wanna ruin the pleasure of seeing 666 ups and 6 downs ... but I like this video :)
This is a great video for so many reasons.
What a load of crap. Lololol
Thank you