My mother posted one of her absolutely-silly memes—of course, ‘gawd’ was involved—that I just couldn’t let pass. Here’s her post—try not to gag. ;-p
This was my response:
GENTLEMEN: women get tired, too.
WOMEN get tired of being cat-called or groped on the street, on the bus, in bars, in restaurants, in school... then told to smile or accept it as a 'compliment', when it isn’t. It's verbal or physical ASSAULT.
WOMEN get heartily-tired of being treated like objects created for your pleasure. We are not robots. We have feelings, needs, worries, intelligence, wants and aspirations. RESPECT them.
WOMEN get tired of men not respecting their bodies or their space, acting like grabby drunks and then getting offended when we tell you to shove it.
WOMEN get tired of being paid less money for the same work.
WOMEN get tired of being told, 'you aren't qualified for this job’... leaving the 'because you're a woman' unsaid, but still implied.
WOMEN get tired of men making laws that take away their right to their own bodies and privacy or redefining rape to make it easier for rapists to escape having to go to prison for being a violent, anti-social fuckwit.
WOMEN get tired of being talked down to by men. We aren't babies, stop treating us like them.
WOMEN get tired of men expecting us to agree that their penis is the gawd we really should worship—or at least acting like it. UGH.
WOMEN get tired of the pressure to be thin and 'beautiful’, to always wear the perfect make-up or clothing—not too slutty, not too schoolmarm, but always 'sexy'—while men can be fat, unwashed and sluggy and still get called 'distinguished' while expecting us to continue to be 'perfect' examples of arm-candy trophies.
WOMEN get tired of the double-standards you make us live with, such as, a man can have sex with as many women as he wants and gets praised as a 'stud'. A women who does the same thing is shamed as a 'slut'. WTF?
WOMEN get really effing tired of being expected to come at your beck and call. We aren't slaves, so stop treating us like we are. No, this isn’t the same as the robot-entry.
WOMEN get tired of being looked down upon, just like you, only we get it worse. If you think about it, you'll see it's true.
WOMEN get tired of being expected to keep the house clean while the men can be slobs and call keeping a clean place 'women's work', while not really believing it's actually work. Maids get paid, ya know. Just sayin’.
WOMEN get tired of being sex-objects.
WOMEN get tired of being RAPED.
WOMEN get tired of getting into arguments you start with jealous crap about 'looking at other guys' when all we did was say hi to a friend.
WOMEN get tired of being expected not to have friends—unless you approve of them.
WOMEN get tired of having to justify wanting to have a life outside of you.
WOMEN get tired of being beaten or even murdered by the men who claim to love them.
WOMEN get tired of being thought of as physically 'weak'. FUCK that shit—go take a look at a female power-lifter and then tell me she's 'weak'. HA. I can pick up a 275lb man with ease and carry forty to fifty-pound rolls of fabric on my shoulders three or four at a time (OK, I used to—if I tried that today, I’d probably end up in the hospital. Well, I can still pick up that heavy dude—there’s even a video out there showing me doing it. LOL). I used to do that all effing day at Fabricland when I worked there.
WOMEN get tired of being assumed to be ditzes who can't figure out technical things.
WOMEN get really tired of being assumed to be bad at math or science. I can list off probably a hundred women in the sciences working today that you know fuck all about that are changing the world, not to mention all of the female scientists who discovered, created, explored or did things—over hundreds of years—that went into making the world you live in today. BTW, it’s thought, in some circles, that women may have been instrumental in creating that signalling device known as language.
WOMEN get tired of being seen as 'over-emotional' when we make a legitimate complaint about you being a selfish prick.
WOMEN get tired, sometimes.
MEN, this is where you have the power to not be an insufferable asshole abuser and lift up your lady and show her how much you actually appreciate the things she does that you can't live without.
In other words, Mum, this post is full of 'mansplaining' bull-pucky. ;-p
Man, sometimes this shit is really entertaining on a boring night. Now, I’ma gonna finish another, more relevant, diary and then go watch some zit-popping videos. (What? They’re relaxing. YMMV) :-D
EDIT: hopefully, those funky diamonds with question-marks are now gone. Dunno WTH happened there. ;-p