sshhh.: This is me making you uncomfortable.

sshhh:

I’ve tried writing this in a more reflective and candid way. I’ve tried separating the thoughts and analysis from the emotion. I wanted to write about it for another collection that I’m putting together but it’s not meant for that.

I was thinking about my experience with most of the female friends I’ve had. How the emotional woman and the damaged woman have been conflated in the minds of many, and it almost makes sense since, yeah, the abuse and exploitation of women occurs in epidemic proportions. I thought “what have we done to our women?”

The answer is a lot. So you might think I’d be angry at this terrible, woman-hating culture, blahdy blah. 

No. I’m angry at women. Because these days, we* have almost full responsibility for perpetuating it.

  1. embereye said: Great post. Thanks for pointing these things out. Considering I had a morning of male privilege with my coffee, this was nice to read. :)
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