Women of America, are you awake yet? Do you still believe you’re a citizen of this country?
Are you still swallowing that comforting lie that your eyeliner can kill a man? Did you know the suffragettes used bombs?
We have been watching the erosion of women’s rights for the last decade like a tide going out at sea. Have you? Are you getting cold in the shadow of this tsunami with your eyes closed, or are you brave enough to see it for what it is?
We do not have the same rights as men. We can’t speak of our abuse without getting sued - 1st amendment. We can’t stand our ground with guns against men without longer and harsher sentences - 2nd amendment. We don’t have control over our own bodies. We’re financially punished and educationally stilted from cradle to grave.
Forget the fantasy of empowerment. Lose your comfort with reality. Get a grip and get angry. Do you know what power is? It isn’t clothes and makeup and subservience in hope of scraps. It isn’t how confident you feel today. It’s the ability to enact change on your life, the lives of others, and the world. It’s land, money, knowledge, political office, and bodily autonomy.
It’s the ability to CHOOSE which pregnancies come to term. Do you truly grasp the weight of that power? How restricting reproductive rights operates as a fundamental baseline for patriarchy? Nature granted that power to women. It’s our choice. Not theirs.
We have to advocate for ourselves. We have to fight for ourselves and each other. We have to take lessons from our foremothers 50 years ago. The men with real power sure as hell will never do it for us. The men with real power identify with the throttled fetus, not the woman. The men with real power are complaining about low birth rates.
Abortion bans = sex kills. Women will die and it might be you.
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