Woman = Flowerpot

[morgan_dhu]

Notice to all persons who have uteri.

It doesn't matter if you're Mary Magdalen or Mary Jones from around the corner, you are a flowerpot.

You may be a flowerpot that doesn't have any earth in it yet and can't grow anything until you get some, a flowerpot containing lots of earth but no precious seed - yet, a flowerpot just about to bring forth its bounty of blossoms, or an old cracked pot that can't hold water, earth or seed any more, but never forget that you are a flowerpot.

Has nothing changed since I was ten years old and being taught by some idiot what to expect now that I was "becoming a woman"? Are women to be forever assessed in terms of the content of their wombs, and not the content of their characters?

Comments

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Wilful idiocy really makes me want to break out the bazookas. And me a pacifist.

Don't know if you're familiar with Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, but there's this song he wrote - despite his own pacifist beliefs - called "If I had a rocket launcher." He wrote it after a visit to Nicaragua during the brief attempt of the Sandinistas to defy the almighty USA, but it's really applicable to all kinds of righteous anger against an oppressive and murderous regime. Final verse:

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die.

Not that I'm advocating murder of a wilful idiot - just that I'm saying, righteous anger must speak. Loudly.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Once I know I'm speaking with a privilged idiot, I'm usually not willing to give them my time, even for the purposes of primarily addressing onlooker's--so I'm not much for chewing them out loudly--maybe I should for the onlookers. If they were standing on a trapdoor, I would definitely pull the lever. I may, however, bat them with my paw for my own snarkish amusement.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it's no use in speaking to them - speaking about them and their idiocy and especially their wilfulness is more what I had in mind.

Batting about with a paw (claws not necessarily sheathed) is also an appropriate response.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

They've really come out of the woodwork on this one.

Actually, I have reached the yelling stage on this one. Fuck education, I want the blood of the next complacent misogynistic moron who crosses my path.

Not in a good mood at all today.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

I just went back and looked at that thread again, and I cannot believe that he was allowed to continue in that way. The only mod note in the entire convo asked *everyone* to calm down. WTF?

So what if his girlfriend has been mindwashed by the medical system she's heavily invested in? He's in a feminist space and the vast majority of feminists who chose to speak to that issue in that space are deeply concerned about the implications of the mindset behind the guidelines and the potential consequences to women. And he thinks it's his right to assure everyone that they're over-reacting and the patriarchal medical institution would never really want to hurt us.

Fuck.

Hope your mood improves in some fashion. The world is not made up entirely of complacent misogynistic morons, although it does often seem that way.