What are women, and why should we care?
If you'd like more things to give a shit about, and would like to give a shit on more days of the year, we recommend listening to women and also believing them.Not currently, because Mother Moon has made a list of who's been patriarchal and who hasn't, and everybody has, so we don't get presents.
But maybe this is the year! Listen carefully! Can you hear on the roof the pitter patter of the leopards that pull her sleigh, as she delivers IWD presents to the all the children around the world who have rejected traditional gender roles?Workshop of Titian [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons / ViaAre women angry at me?commons.wikimedia.org Yes, we are. Because this morning we were just trying to get on a crowded train, and there would have been space if you had only taken off your backpack, and instead you just looked me right in the eye with your big space-taking-up backpack on your stupid space-unaware body, and I couldn’t get on the train and had to get off and wait for the next one and it made me late,Oh also, even if you are nice and not a crowded-train-backpack-wearer, you still benefit in numerous ways from a society that for centuries has treated maleness as the default, many of which you might not have fully acknowledged or even realised.
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