I'm so damn tired off all this bullshit. I'm looking at you, Republicans. This is an uncalled for attack. There's no reason for this. Let me tell you something, back in the "good ol' days" you would be breaking your backs in a field somewhere. They were very rarely happy times, except for the very few who had the money to go to college. You wouldn't have had it.
I'm so tired of this. So damn tired of every second where somebody is trying to take away my humanness. Not my humanity, but my humanness. They are trying to erase my rights as a human, to make me less than them. Do you know who this is? It is so very often those old white men, privileged in every sense of the word. People who have never, ever had to question every second of every day whether or not they would be de-humaned that day. Nobody is trying to tell them that they're unable to make their own decisions about how their body works and how they can control their future. These men are, all at once, trying to say that rape isn't rape, to take away birth control and outlaw abortions. Say a girl doesn't want to have sex until she's married, and only then for children. But she's raped one day and the man causes a pregnancy, one in her body, not his. She couldn't be on birth control because she couldn't afford it, she can't even charge him really, because who in the fuck would believe her? I'm sure she was dressed too provocatively, walked down the wrong alley or something. She can't get rid of the child either. Putting the child up for adoption isn't really even on the table. So she's left there to raise a child she can't afford to put what will probably amount to another criminal. They're attacking women on a very fundamental level, telling her that the only important part of her is her womb and that any man should have access to her at any time they like. They're telling her that she must produce a child even if some man forces himself on her.
Every fucking day every woman you meet has to worry about balancing how she acts to be seen "right". She has to be just feminine enough without being frivolous, just pretty enough, just sexy enough but not enough to make men "lose control of themselves" as if they're wild animals with no impulse control. We have to dress just right, flirt just right, be coy but not run too much, wear shoes that make it hard to run in but be prepared at all times to run from any man. The right clothing for her is clothing that grants the easiest access to those parts that any man is supposed to have a claim on. She's supposed to look natural but perfect, to have the perfect breasts, the perfect legs, the perfect hands and arms and face. Her hair is supposed to be long and healthy, her eyelashes long and lustrous, her eyebrows just perfectly manicured. Every woman is held to these standards of appearance and deportment that men are never held to. And, seriously, those who say "that's just how it is" don't have an original fucking thought in their head. They swallow these standards without thinking about them.
Women are constantly at threat. We don't really want to have to think about it, but it's the truth. At any point in time a man could decide that he wants to take something from you that only belongs to you; a part of your body and soul. A part of your sanity that will never return. A part of trust that you can never extend again. It's something that you have to be expecting and defending yourself from at all points in life. How many men are afraid to leave their drink , are afraid to walk alone? Guys consistently wonder why women go places in pairs; maybe it's because there's safety in numbers? Every thought about that? Ever thought about the fact that the women will get blamed if she's attacked and she's alone, defenseless? She has to accept at all times that any man in her life can decide that he wants something from her and she doesn't even have to agree to give it; he can just take it. Even the most trusted men in her life can do her wrong-- priests, police officers, fathers, brothers, cousins, boyfriends, husbands. The people who most often attack women are those nearest to her. I've heard so many stories of older cousins who harm their family than should even be possible. Boyfriends won't stop when she says no. Husbands who beat her. People in authority positions take advantage. A woman in the military is three times more likely to be harmed by a higher officer than a woman in normal life.
My body is mine, you friends', daughters', relatives', neighbors', and random acquaintances' bodies all belong to them. How in the fuck would you feel if suddenly the government and a bunch of women came in and told you that you couldn't use condoms anymore? That if someone beat the shit out of you that there would be no recourse? That the only thing you're important for is one small part of you? So back the fuck off. Leave us be. And maybe think before you start spouting off shit.
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