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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[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.