Filed under: Feminism, beauty, bitch, chivalry, college women, double standards, feminists, image of women, male privilege, men, misogyny, objectification of women, porn industry
I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter if I had fuller breasts and long, golden hair that ran out my head, I wouldn’t make a very nice woman.
It doesn’t matter if you give me a uterus, or different sets of chromosomes, or even if you made me smell nicer, or stay cleaner, I wouldn’t make a nice woman.
Hell, give me my own vagina, with its own well-built system of reproduction and centers of pleasure, and I’d still wouldn’t make a very nice woman.
I know this because I know that by the time I am 12 or 13, I will hate men.
I wouldn’t hate them for their biology; I’d hate them for their ways to looking at me.
I’d hate them for their leery eyes and roaming hands - and the way they refer to me, not by my name, but as “hottie,” “sexy,” “babe,” or a myriad of other nicknames used to objectify me.
I would hate them for blaming my anger and attitude on my being “on the rag,” when in fact it is their ways of treating me that makes me angry.
I would hate that they holler at me as I walk down the street. What, should I come over there, drop my pants and jump their bone?
I would hate that if I bring up anything that makes me upset about them, I am being a whiny bitch.
I would hate them for treating me like a princess, but instantly call me a bitch if I were to turn down their sexual advances.
I would hate them for looking at me at a vehicle for their pleasure, and not as my own complete person.
Even in their compliments, I’d hate them for pre-supposing that just because I am a smart girl, that I am unique.
I’d most definitely have trouble trusting them - for I would never knew if one was genuine, or came from a long line of those trying to get in my pants
I would hate them for not knowing what the word “no” means. It doesn’t mean continuing to pursuit me. It doesn’t mean I am playing coy. It means you’re probably a dumbass and I am not interested in you.
I would hate them for roaming at bars, even when I am talking to my friends, trying to break in to our conversations. Leave me alone! I am here with friends!
I would hate the drinks they offer as a way to “break the ice,” as if somehow I am a prostitute and they are buying my time with drinks
I hate them because they control the media and images of me are distorted to be the way THEY see it
I would hate them because images of my body are spread everywhere - some of which are mutilated, as a way to promote their products
I would hate the porn industry. I would hate the pressure they put on me to act “accordingly.”
I would hate that I cannot be myself, but have to compare myself to unrealistic standards.
I would hate the make-up, the shoes and everything else that I need for a job interview just to be successful.
I would hate that I must always be perfect, but perfection is not good enough. I am encouraged to diet more, look better, lose more weight.
I would hate that I am robbed of all that is me - that I am made out to be what the patriarchy wants me to be. I would hate not being my own person.
But, thankfully, I am not a woman. I am a man, full of privileges and free to live my life as I see fit. I am still raging mad.
I am mad that my friends, sisters, loved ones, potential lovers and future daughters are subjected to shit they’d never think of doing to a man.
I am piss-hot the people I love are viewed as objects and not people.
I am upset that most people don’t empathize with the people I love.
But thankfully, I am a man. If a were a woman, I wouldn’t make a very nice one. By 14, I think I’d be in jail for murder.
― and what, Saturday, 29 March 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
three months pass...