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Sometimes I despair...

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theliterarycat · 15/11/2017 00:59

... and wonder if women will ever be seen as equals.

When in the same week I hear of perfectly seemingly normal male friends who don’t think their wives should drive across Europe. Or believe that they are not fit to get a driver’s licence. And think it is so selfish to end a marriage when unhappy or admit that it would have been better if wives did not work and stayed at home so they could get important jobs like all the other blokes who were making the dosh because had sah wives and did not have childcare or read to their children after work. Same men who now sadly widowed feel how brain dead can be being home but still believe it would hsve been ok for a woman because of the higher goal.

These are not openly chauvinistig men. And yet... and fucking yet... still we are here. Still at the point where men still take it for granted that they will decide and judge which weight to carry and which position to take in society. And tell us where we should be and what to do for the “easier runing of things”. And call us selfish for deciding to think with our own heads and chose different paths.

Oh fuck off!!

(Apologies for the rant but had to vent before going to bed as it was eating me inside.)

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WhatWouldGenghisDo · 15/11/2017 14:05

YY cat! What the hell is wrong with a woman doing something for or about herself once in a while ffs

I've been actively attempting selfishness too since having kids finally forced me to confront the horrible lifetime consequences of having been brought up to be a good little girl I will borrow your yellow brick road if I may!

theliterarycat · 15/11/2017 01:04

I think that from now I’ll know I am on the right track when a man calls my choices selfish. I am going to visualise a fucking bright yellow brick road in front of me and hop I skip away.

(Going mad with rage, clearly.)

Goodnight.

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