the unpacking series

july 03

U.: “We’ve talked about the impossible standards placed on women before. It’s absolutely insane how normalized we’ve made it where sacrifices are just expected of women, and the selflessness that is required should somehow be limitless, and any kind of questioning of that labels you terribly selfish and horrible.

And it’s disgusting that the biology argument gets brought up like the holy trump card that’s meant to shut up all discourse.

And after everything society expects women to do, they want women to do it without complaint? They demand only gratitude and contentment and total satisfaction? Haaaaa.

I ASK YOU TO COMPLAIN MORE.”

God, I love her. How we went from me asking if I was a painfully boring person to this, I’ll never know.

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