The other thing I’m working on right now. Not pictured: details to make it look all country cross-stitch sampler-y This current wave of stupid ultra Christian, ultra Republican bullshit is making me foam at the mouth with rage. Every woman has a personal private history involving body things and the mental things that come from life (not to mention our day to day struggle with being a woman with such misogynists existing in the world). I don’t have a horrible “victim” story, but I do have a past and a story I may or may not share someday. But the fact that these assholes think that every girl grows up chaste and pure and doesn’t have lust or makes mistakes or is taken advantage of is almost a borderline mental disability. And for them to think that these pure little girls grow up to want to be a wife and a mother to 800 children, healthy or not or whatever, and still live “the American dream” is a joke. I thought our mothers and grandmothers fought for certain rights for us so we wouldn’t have to. Then a new crop of privilaged white men appear and start the crazy fundamentalists rabble-rousing, and suddenly it’s the fucking Victorian age. I refuse to pop out innumerable amounts of children and hang out in the kitchen all day. I have always been passionate about women’s rights (duh, shouldn’t we all be?), but I am not going to put up with this any more. I have a daughter to raise (AND a son who will not grow up to be an asshole), and I’m not going to let a few lunatics get in my way.

The other thing I’m working on right now. Not pictured: details to make it look all country cross-stitch sampler-y

This current wave of stupid ultra Christian, ultra Republican bullshit is making me foam at the mouth with rage. Every woman has a personal private history involving body things and the mental things that come from life (not to mention our day to day struggle with being a woman with such misogynists existing in the world). I don’t have a horrible “victim” story, but I do have a past and a story I may or may not share someday. But the fact that these assholes think that every girl grows up chaste and pure and doesn’t have lust or makes mistakes or is taken advantage of is almost a borderline mental disability. And for them to think that these pure little girls grow up to want to be a wife and a mother to 800 children, healthy or not or whatever, and still live “the American dream” is a joke.

I thought our mothers and grandmothers fought for certain rights for us so we wouldn’t have to. Then a new crop of privilaged white men appear and start the crazy fundamentalists rabble-rousing, and suddenly it’s the fucking Victorian age. I refuse to pop out innumerable amounts of children and hang out in the kitchen all day. I have always been passionate about women’s rights (duh, shouldn’t we all be?), but I am not going to put up with this any more. I have a daughter to raise (AND a son who will not grow up to be an asshole), and I’m not going to let a few lunatics get in my way.

2 months ago
  1. shaebay said: That is exactly how I felt last year when I stitched my pro-choice piece. It’s cathartic, but goddamn it does nothing and I hate anti-choicers for that.
  2. dearratbastards said: AMEN
  3. vegkat posted this