Sylvia Plath was right
About what?
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
I know women who were teenagers during WW2 who talked about the immense freedom they had as teen girls. They could sleep on the beach at night. They’d walk home alone after a party. From the way they talk about it, you’d think there wasn’t a war going on or that some of those nights were interrupted by air raid sirens.
How was this possible? Easy – just conscript every able-bodied man between the ages of 15 and 60 and put them in military compounds that they aren’t allowed to leave. Remember this the next time a woman muses about having curfews for men so women can walk alone and night, and everyone scoffs at how that wouldn’t solve anything, somehow.
That’s the thing. The fear is all in your head.
Why don’t you give people the bird by essentially not caring what men think of you, or what you’re afraid they’re going to do to you if you’re out past a certain hour? I never really understood this, TBH.
Tuesday sounds like she’s been pumped with scaremongering. She doesn’t realise that
The “women are always in danger of rapes” thing is also said by patriarchy and traditional views. And was used as an excuse for why women weren’t allowed to get education or go outside. So it’s actually VERY misogynistic that feminists are saying the same thing
Men also get assaulted and in fact they are more likely to be murderer by a stranger than women are
F/F rape is a thing and is swept under the rug because “women are pure and innocent uwu”
And most importantly, being told to fear all men leaves you in danger of being abused by other women. And the women who tell you that “girlhood is traumatic” and such things aren’t trying to help you. THEY ARE TRYING TO ABUSE AND CONTROL YOU.
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