Breaking Free from the Cycle
Lookie here, some commercial bastard has decided to create a magazine to undo 100 years of the women's movement and use its sexist premises to sell us things based on our "natural rythmns".
As if it's not bad enough to create a magazine claiming that women are ruled by their uterii, this fucker also reinforces the women should be spending their time, since each week of our cycles is broken down into the categories: Shopping, Food, Travel, and DIY (the DIY is the typical Cosmo "selfhelp" crap, btw). How exciting. Nowhere in there is the things I'd like to see like
Week 2: Exciting
This would be the best time to stage your carefully planned hostile takeover of yet another company.
Nope, it's Here's how to remodel your bathroom!!
I have a fucking brilliant idea, how about we get past the stage where we assume that women's uterii float around their body fucking up their ability to think logically and act normal? I know it's goddam radical, but really, it's time we moved on.
How about we stop subverting women's self esteem, security, and rightful place as half of the human race to the almighty dollar?
You know what? Men have crappy days. They have times of the month when they feel lethargic or pissy. Do you know what we call that? Nothing. We just accept that a guy is having a down day and move on. When women have the same thing, we call it abnormal. Know why? Because we have set men up as the goddam standard of "normal" for the entire history of the study of biological science.
Move on, people. There's nothing to see here except the tatters of Victorianism that still bind us to patriarchy wrapped neatly in the commercial need to undermine women in order to make them buy crap.
How about we just live everyday and stop pretending we need someone else to tell us what we need to be happy?
As if it's not bad enough to create a magazine claiming that women are ruled by their uterii, this fucker also reinforces the women should be spending their time, since each week of our cycles is broken down into the categories: Shopping, Food, Travel, and DIY (the DIY is the typical Cosmo "selfhelp" crap, btw). How exciting. Nowhere in there is the things I'd like to see like
Week 2: Exciting
This would be the best time to stage your carefully planned hostile takeover of yet another company.
Nope, it's Here's how to remodel your bathroom!!
I have a fucking brilliant idea, how about we get past the stage where we assume that women's uterii float around their body fucking up their ability to think logically and act normal? I know it's goddam radical, but really, it's time we moved on.
How about we stop subverting women's self esteem, security, and rightful place as half of the human race to the almighty dollar?
You know what? Men have crappy days. They have times of the month when they feel lethargic or pissy. Do you know what we call that? Nothing. We just accept that a guy is having a down day and move on. When women have the same thing, we call it abnormal. Know why? Because we have set men up as the goddam standard of "normal" for the entire history of the study of biological science.
Move on, people. There's nothing to see here except the tatters of Victorianism that still bind us to patriarchy wrapped neatly in the commercial need to undermine women in order to make them buy crap.
How about we just live everyday and stop pretending we need someone else to tell us what we need to be happy?
posted by Terri | 10:45 AM
6 Comments:
Wow, you have issues.
Right on!
And I don't understand this Anonymous person saying that you have issues ... yeah, you have issues -- with male dominance, with women's subversion! I have issues too, then!
Thanks. :) I allow anon posting, but I don't respond to it.
Wow. That mag is amazing. It seems as though its creators believe my life to be dull and revolving around learning how to best win/keep/acquiesce to a man. I don't care about shopping for "killer candy bowls." I want to know more about shopping for a good investment firm to handle my retirement plan. And I unfortunately do not have much time for finding places to watch the falling leaves, though it sounds fabulous, because I, like you, am way too busy improving my mind and setting myself up for a satisfying career. So I'm starting my period tomorrow. Big deal. Like that's the only time I crave sweets? Please.
I'm going to go offline, now, so I can take my irritable and wondering uterous out for a soothing stroll to look at the leaves and eat sweetarts.
I disagree with your stance that when men have "down" days that people essentially ignore it.
Guys act in all sorts of abnormal ways and, when they get a bit over the top about it, I get to calling them jerks, assholes, bastards, pissers, etc. I know other guys who do the same thing. If there is no good reason to be a jackass, then there is no excuse for man or woman. just my honest opinion.
oh, and I am NOT the anon who posted at the start.
meow.
You're missing the point.
We treat men acting like pissers as if they are indivduals who are having a bad day. They might be "jerks" or whatever, but they are generally not lumped together. A male asshole is not considered a matter of biology, whereas a woman asshole is considered a matter of biology. Women are deemed to be ruled by their hormones, collectively.
I don't support anyone acting like a jerk.
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