And you have to understand that, as a woman, many of the inroads we've been sold as progress and equality have been a fucking dupe.
The pill and sexual emancipation?
Of course control over one's fertility is fantastic, brilliant, but there is no need to take a break whilst taking the pill. It was just thought that women 'would feel more natural to do that. And of course talking hormonal contraception has no side effects ever. One of which, for many women is, perversely, lack of fucking libido, anyway, moving on, hoorah! We are now available for sex whenever, even if we don't feel like it and are rendered sexless by our daily tablet.
Win- Women- +1, men - +1 , women -1.
Net gain = 0
Women can't get mortgages in their name, so joint mortgages are brought in, GREAT, we can now apply for mortgages in two salaries. Brilliant. House prices consequently gradually creep up and then rocket. Hmm. But women's salaries are not equal with men's so one of two things happen, it now takes two salaries to get a mortgage so both partners have to work, it's much harder for women to be sole property owners than men.
Win - Men -0, women - -1,
Net gain - women lose.
As a result of all of this, sexual emancipation is driven by male desires, it started with sexual freedom, moved on to availability and then went back to the default (Which never left), of women as objects to be desired.
And we haven't left the biological constraints that mean, on the whole, we earn less than men.
Men still rape, are still violent. Still inform policy by and large.
Nothing has really changed.
It's just we have a knew a whizzy breed of misogyny that actually claim to be women.
So we can't even have our biology now.
Whoop. 2018.