elsewhere, there is a complaint about being unsupported when breastfeeding. this is a feminist issue - and the fault lies fairly and squarely at the feet of women.
i am astounded that after the battles fought in the seventies and eighties, women have allowed such regression.
look how stupid women are today. they have their bodies surgically adapted to men's fantasies - breasts enlarged, labia trimmed - they bleach their hair, tattoo their eyeliner and lipstick and have themselves spray-painted. they remove their pubic hair so they look like children for their (multiple) partners. if you read about it in a book on social anthropology you'd be horrified at the 'oppression' of women. but women think they are choosing this!
then they say 'oh, its not fair, no-one supports me when i'm breastfeeding'. too damn right they don't. because you and your compatriots have allowed everyone to see you as barbie dolls to use and abuse. they don't want to see you being women, being grown up, feeding your babies, that spoils the fantasy. you created this; live with it.
when you've finished screaming at me about your 'rights' to have your mons pubis decorated with fake jewels and to have your isabella piercing, organise yourselves.
wash your faces, let the fake tan fade, cut off your dyed hair and let it grow back naturally, so your babies can recognise the human being their genetic memory was expecting to find here. stay free from chemicals that mask your natural odours, so your babies can recognise you by smell. if people are pressurising you to 'go back to work' say, 'certainly. when this baby chooses to stop breastfeeding'. that gives you four to five years at home, maybe longer, when you are doing something no-one else can - being your babies' mothers.
the 'male' has been accepted as the 'norm' in society - so some early feminists wanted to be like men - some of that lingers. but feminists who believe in the strength and value of the female, have retreated into hiding. wake up! speak up! these are your daughters, sisters, aunts, even your mothers tarting themselves up and whoring themselves out to all and sundry trying to be 'wives and girlfriends'! they're too stupid to realise they've been conned!
educate your daughters. make them aware of political and societal manipulation. make women free - free from pressure to look a certain way, behave a certain way. free, in fact, to be women. free to want to eat without guilt, work, reproduce, raise children, form partnerships, find contentment and find peace of mind.
don't leave this to someone else. if strong women don't act to make the world a better place for women, no-one will. and in twenty years' time, i'll be reading 'oh, society doesn't support breast-feeding mothers'. again.
AIBU?
to think that women are stupid?
lovebunny · 06/07/2012 05:57
Blimy are you stupid, for assuming all women are the same 
. Part of feminism is that women are given the choices, if indon want a uni brow it's up to me to trim it. If you think that women who alter their bodies do it for men your thinking is extremely narrow
The media is full of spray painted boobified women, but in the village where I live most women are working hard and look normal, and breast or bottle feed (whatever suits them), and are SAHM or WOHM or a hybrid version thereof.
I'd say most of my friends don't wear make up or dye their hair, those who do, do so freely.
My sons know how a 40 year old woman looks in her pants (no spray paint, no fake boobs), they think I am beautiful (bless them ! They are only little) and they like my squidgy bits (no hard toned body, just a normal average woman's body).
TBH, I do not recognise what you describe in your OP from my real life.
Maybe you have been watching Towie too much, reading Heat and Closer etc?
I find that English women on the whole seen very comfortable with their natural appearance, I am from South America and I can tell you, it is 100 times worse! Comparing tummy tucks at the school gates anyone 
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