Saturday, March 12, 2011

quote

I found this while poking around on the internet the other day. Its author is unknown, but it was posted in The Torch on September 14, 1987. I love it. And while I love it, it also depresses me because the same quote has been applicable since...forever:

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and 'unfeminine' and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement."

1 comment:

  1. I agree, so that I have to look above and beyond the says and moving on by being myself. Then you will see there are these amazing human beings gather around you in life. I do not need all of them, I need few good people of my own.

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