Women Are the Lesser Gender
Or some such bullshittery.
Being a woman in America means I’m shit as far as half the population is concerned. If I’d been paying attention and just accepted that status I might have gotten used to being the lesser. Instead, I’m still fighting against it.
Emphasis on ‘still’.
But I’m only one woman. How am I going to fight this idea that my body, my brain, my entire reason for being on this earth, is dictated by an unfortunate luck of the draw, chromosome-wise?
When it gets right down to it, what could I say or do that I haven’t said or done before?
I started this piece thinking I’d logically explain why my gender isn’t the lesser of the only two genders that seem to matter. I’d go into our history and our successes and patiently explain how ridiculous it is to fall back on that biblical nonsense about the subjugation of women when this is the 21st Century and none of what we’ve been told is even remotely true.
I thought I’d talk about women’s rights and our need to protect our own bodies as well as our sanity and how any invasion, physical or otherwise, is unacceptable and intolerable and we’re not going to take it anymore.
I’d talk about Roe v Wade being struck down and the wave of dangerous new state laws forbidding…
