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?

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[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

It seems as though every week there's something new and hateful that's being done to try and eliminate any progress our society has made toward social justice over the last, say, 50 years. Women's rights, civil rights for people of colour, gay rights... so much resistance to the ideas of freedom and equality.

After all this time, men (especially men in power) still think that the main purpose of women is to reproduce - and not even in their own interests, but in the interests of the men who still think they own women.

I'm getting very discouraged.