AIBU To think there is joy to be had in womanhood?

[ProudMammysHouse]

Just saw this tweet by MP Rosie Duffield: https://x.com/RosieDuffield1/status/2032146070046650812

" "Joyful in their womanhood" is something no biological woman has ever said and meant, ever."

And it's just made me really sad for her. I know things aren't perfect and some parts of being a woman are downright unfair but to be this negative about it just seems like there are other issues going on with her.

Am I the only one who has ever felt beautiful, powerful and dare I say, joyful, in my womanhood?

I wonder how much joy in womanhood is being found in Sudan or Afghanistan at the moment too.

Men will always push women out of the way when competition for resources becomes intense because they can and because we are one of the resources they most desperately want. Women push other women aside for the same first reason too.

I'm very fortunate, in that I haven't experienced many of the awful things that lots of women suffer. The one specifically female thing that I feel and felt joy about is having children. But actually, the good parts of that are not a specifically female thing. Dh was joyful about having children too. He didn't have to do the morning sickness or labour though. They weren't joyful at all. Imo the joyful things in life are not specific to being a woman.

All animals will fight over resources when they become scarce, it's a fight for survival, nothing to do with sex. No woman is going to starve to death willingly for the sisterhood.i doubt the soldiers being blown up in Sudan or Afghanistan are experiencing joy in their manhood either.

You're confusing poverty and war with sexism.

The problem is biology. That nasty little reality. Men are bigger and stronger and socialised to take what they want. Women are the nurterers and carers. There was a time in Northern Europe - and millennia ago in the Med, before Rome - when women were valued for being life givers. Nowadays life is cheap.

The women in Sudan are getting gangraped before being blown up, and are you really claiming equality in Afghanistan? The women there get beaten up for being heard by a man ffs. Their brothers, husbands and their own sons are complicit with this.

Where did I claim equality in Afghanistan? I just said I don't think the men are enjoying the war either 🙄

I agree. Brilliantly put.

Interesting thread.....

Society makes being a woman joyless. The constant descrininatuon that we face, the hatred and the violence....

But having a female body is a wonderful thing. The ability to grow another human inside you, and feed it from your body, that's joyful!

And sex has the potential to be 10 times better for women than it can be for men. I am very sexually experienced and I firmly believe it! It's very sad that this is so often not the case, because society discourages women from taking joy in sex - but if we can break free of that and find the way to do so, and love and understand our own bodies enough to make that happen (and talking about it helps too - women must keep talking about sex!) - what a wonderful thing.

I love my mind too. I don't know to what extent I am like I am because I am a woman, or whether it's just me.... But my emotional intelligence, my nurturing nature, my endless capacity for love - these things bring me deep joy!

I love being a woman. I am not particularly feminine, dont wear make up much or dress up, not thrilled with periods or menopause or any of the shit stuff but I am very happy being female. I dont think i have ever felt joyful in my womanhood though, or miserable in it, for that matter.

I love being Irish too.

And sex has the potential to be 10 times better for women than it can be for men. I am very sexually experienced and I firmly believe it!

It's also classically attested (although I think it was 9 time not 10 😂)

Rosie Duffield is one of the few Labour MPs to stand up for women’s single-sex rights. And her gutless colleagues made life hell for her. The ‘joy’ quote sounds like a man playing at being a woman.

I am joyful that we have heroic women like Rosie on our side!