8 years of being reminded that women are less than & that’s right where men want us. I haven’t stopped crying and probably won’t. Thank you for stating out loud what’s been in my head. I am not alone; we are not helpless when we rage scream together.
Thank you for this- Yes I feel the same way. I alternate between wanting to cry and break shit. And then laugh-cry while keying some bigot's car. It's all of the emotions at the same time- and being bi-polar doesn't help with any of this. Your comment perfectly defines this moment.
I feel beaten down this week also - something happened on 04/24/2024 that motivated me to reconsider whether I want to continue with some v. long friendships that I'm not really into anymore...other than by habit...and I mean like 20, 30 & even 50 year friendships. Time for a complete reassessment. I may have made a new younger friend this week, though - I don't know yet, but I'll give it some consideration. I can't relate to many ppl my own age anymore (70.) There's something terribly wrong w/most of them. - from a vintage feminist who knows more than she says.
I’m so sorry Maggie. You have a friend here - with me and this community of people. I know what it feels like to lose friends over political issues and in your age group many don’t seem very empathetic, I see this with my parents and their friends. I’ve lost family members and it is so mind blowing to me.
Being a vintage feminist you should start a Substack. I’d love to hear more of what you have to say.
Ty for your support, Liz. I'm starting to speak up w/abandon, but it's been a rough couple of weeks. Discarding friends is a difficult process - whether to explain why, or simply do a slow walk away. Ghosting is neither my style nor my proclivity, but I will post here in time. I'd just subbed Jessica V's Substack this week after being a voyeur for 6+ mos...wondering if I really want to be this furious so much of the time...not great for my blood pressure. I was so active in my youth for abortion rights, against our foreign war in Vietnam and the draft, for income equality & for 18 y.o.'s having the right to vote. We were successful on most of those fronts, but I'm supposed to be enjoying my retirement at this stage. Three steps forward and 20 steps backwards is what I see...very frustrating, but...
I would never start my own Substack. I don't wish to be in a pervasive state of fury, though what's going on is definitely infuriating. Keep up the good fight, Liz. Warriors like you & Jess have my complete support.
That has to be so so so incredibly crushing to know you fought for abortion rights and won…. Only to have them stripped away.
You saw first hand what an anti abortion America looked like. Honestly just speaking your story or comments even in notes is so helpful. I don’t know if enough people understand how bleak the situation will become if republicans win. I just started seeing a therapist to help with it - I was lucky to find one that takes insurance… because it’s just all too much to bear. That’s why we lean on each other. And thank you for subscribing to Jessica. Her work is so important!!!
Every few years I look at who are my current friends and trust my gut as to which ones I have an unhealthy relationship with that are ticks slowly sucking on my soul. Then I discard them. My life has improved since I started this practice.
Thank you for paving the road that we are running on now 💜
In this situation, it helps me to look for the Helpers. The Auntie Networks that are looking out for women who need support in practical ways. We’re out here.
I too am struggling with all this madness. I was gang raped in the military (back then they called it pulling a train) nothing happened to the men that did it. I was in training and they were the ones that supposedly were the trainers. I ended up in the hospital because I later found out that I was pregnant, I tried to kill myself. They gave me diseases that one always comes back to remind me of the worst thing that happened to me. The army gave me the abortion. In the seventies they said I was not going to make it with a rapist child. I know of many other women that was raped and even killed in the military by our own soldiers. The chaplain that came to visit me in the hospital said to me “boys will be boys and you are young and you will get over this .” WHEN? Because I haven’t, I tried to, I buried it and never spoke about it again. I went on to retire from the military, did several combat tours, but I still had the nightmares, I was married, he never understood me, why I didn’t like being touched sometimes. I never told him, I told him about my friend that happened to be a victim and he actually said that she probably deserved it. Any way I am so afraid and angry about what is happening now in America with women. It is a case of mind over matter. They don’t mind because we as women don’t matter.
Oh my god Cynthia I’m so sorry you had to go through that. It must be so insulting to see republican lawmakers trying to get rid of the military’s ability to provide abortion care for women in anti abortion states. What you went through is truly hideous and appalling… I have no words other than I’m glad you are here and we are grateful to hear your story.
Keep telling your story because we have to work together to change things. I hope that you have network of supportive family and friends . And you have the thousands of unknown women who have a deep connection with you. There are no words that could wash away your feelings but know that you are never alone because whether we were assaulted, harassed or neither just being a woman gives you our collective energy. Take good care of yourself.
It is such a hard thing to realize that people you don’t even know can be making life changing decisions without even caring how they we affect you. And the state of women’s reproductive health care is teetering on going over the cliff.
At almost 70, I’m experiencing deja vu all over again. I’ve been down the road of discrimination, misogyny, sexual harassment, and laws that discounted our independence and intelligence. During my teen years, our civil rights were inching ahead slowly and the Equal Rights Amendment was passing in the states. Until housewife and wanna be lawyer Phyllis Schlafly gathered together a pretty powerful anti-ERA movement and convinced women that “women would have to go to war” and we would loose all the inherent rights granted to us frail-flowers plus we would have to share public bathrooms. It worked!
We never got enough states to ratify something so basic as women being full fledged citizens and part of the Constitution. It would have been a game-changer and would have helped us defend the very rights they want to deny us now.
In my 20s, I started to feel women were going get the changes we wanted but it was going to be a climb. Then Roe v. Wade was the ground breaking decision which made women elated. In my 30s, our society had grown to so women could select careers beyond school teacher and nurse.
In my 40s, equal pay for equal work was being arbitrated in the court’s continuously Most cases were defeated with sexist reasons or technicalities. In my 50s, women began saying “I’m not a feminist.” It was as if all the struggles never happened. The word became tainted except for the diehards. In my sixties, there were and are many “women’s issues” that reared their ugly head from “sneaky” laws or actions/inactions to overturning Roe and creating the firestorm we are in now.
It seems like we spent our time and efforts on the “headline” and not on incremental ways “women have become disrespected and hated. Funding for “women’s issues” like testing the thousands of rape kits that are in storage across the country - justice
Justice denied because no one wants to spend the money. Rapists are often repeat offenders. How many women were raped because no one made the effort to find and stop them. Maternal death rates in the United States are appalling and twice as high for women of color. Really can go on and on.
I too am frustrated and so very angry. God damnit, we did the work and now we are back in the 1850s. I do not ever remember a time where the absolute hatred of women was so very blatant. Oh, it existed but it was covered in sugar topped with whip cream and topped with a cherry. Sorry, I’m not going to fall for that.
Now we are experiencing full force “we’re going to teach ‘em”. They have taken the “we won’t let babies die” approach like never before. But you do let babies die because you just want to penalize women heck with the children. When 15 states turned away federal funds to feed impoverished children or after birth medical care funding is disappeared or when pregnant women are in crisis they are turned away at the ER or when a young single woman is told to just go home without any information or assistance with an active miscarriage.
The good news is there are plenty of old feminists like myself who aren’t going to abandon you. We are standing up for
for every woman and all future women. Just let me know if any of you need an old woman’s extra support.
Things look bad now but it’s always darkest before the dawn. Plus there are a lot more wonderful feminist men to join us and defeat the sexist pigs.
THANK YOU Sharon. This made me tear up. Through so much darkness I'm feeling a ray of hope, or at least the embrace from women around the country who are fired the F up and ready to do this. I waiver between fury and hopelessness and then fiery motivation. Your comments give me hope. And I truly believe that women might be staying relatively quiet (especially non maga conservative women) but are also seething inside and will quietly vote blue in November. Because even they have to know at this point, it was never about saving babies. It is and has always been about controlling women.
So glad I could share my 70 year feminist trek. I know what you mean up and down every day. Yesterday I hit a wall I was too tired to climb over. I too get so much from the Substack community. It’s almost like a daily refresher. Just know if you reach out someone will grab your hand.
Thank you for this ❤️ I’m sorry you’re feeling this way but as a person who is also feeling this way (and a fellow Liz), it’s just nice to know that I’m not alone. I’m a survivor too and it really does feel just as that abuse did. I’m a working mom and sometimes I cheer myself up reminding myself just how much my life would drive these ghouls crazy. We will always be free and they hate us for it. But I love us for it 💪❤️
Thank you Liz. And one or my favorite hobbies is making these ghouls crazy. ESPECIALLY the incels and they are abundant on social media.
As a working mom I know it’s fucking hard- my mom raised us single in Los Angeles and that was fucking hard. Being a mom is hard enough. Add on the rest of the shit women in America deal with and it’s enough to send anyone over the edge.
I can’t even breathe… I was born sick but I have worked since 15 & before that we had chores for our allowance. I will never have children either. My body was badly damaged from my childhood rape and since it was my first time I thought violence was how it was supposed to be. Instead the violence was because he was pissed that all that time he spent grooming me meant nothing because I meant my commitment to God. I meant my commitment to be a virgin until I was married so he had to tie me up. Now I am so sick that I can’t work and waiting to be accepted into an undiagnosed disease program (I’ve been diagnosed with around 100 chronic and autoimmune diseases) and the correlation of being sick and thinking SO MUCH is undeniable that I’m killing myself by disgust of the state of this Nation and to your point I’m stuck in the South (Tennessee) and a trigger state at that. I’m none of the things my state represents. It’ll always be home because of my family. I love the sports and sure you can find awesome people, but the state’s politics are horrible. I have chosen abstinence to assure I don’t get pregnant. My doctors say I’d need an abortion if I got pregnant and I’ve never been pregnant thankfully, well other than one time I appeared to be having a miscarriage but I never knew. After that I never even had a scare and I’m sure it’s from damage to my body but also endometriosis. However, I know if I were to get pregnant in Tennessee where it’s now illegal to go out of the state and a literal crime to do so for an abortion—I have decided to ask for a hysterectomy to ensure that doesn’t happen and help the pain of endometriosis. That’s where I’m at and thank you for writing this. I feel like I’m going completely insane at times.
Thank you for sharing your heartbreaking story and considerable ongoing struggle. It breaks my heart hearing about all you have been through. I too struggle with endometriosis, and I know how painful it can be. I hope that you are able to get the medical and mental healthcare you deserve. I know how awful autoimmune diseases are and it doesn't help when the medical community tells you "there is nothing wrong- you're just imagining it..."
I wish I could do something to make it all better for you, it truly makes me sad. I am just grateful you feel comfortable coming here and sharing your story, like many of the brave women who have posted in the comments here. I appreciate all of you so much. Consider this a virtual hug.
Thank you for your reply! It means a lot to know there are other women who are fed up and to see people sharing stories. We all share trauma and together can have strong voices. It’s hard to reassure ourselves with the current political climate, but it feels like a time to share raw emotion. People respond to true feelings and hopefully it will inspire them to demand change as well. I know if at least two women in Tennessee who were septic by the time they were able to get medical care…
I am sending you love, Liz. I’m having one of the worst years of my life for reasons I won’t enumerate, but one of the things that helps me is knowing there are amazing women out there - men too - who aren’t afraid to express their pain and fear and rage. It makes me feel more able to manage my own. We can and do hold each other up. So I’m sending you love, and I’m sending love to all of the people who need it ♥️
Much love to you Jessica. Someone said somewhere.... 2024 is going to be the worst and most consequential year of our lives. They weren't wrong. But yes, we have each other and it makes me feel better knowing you all are out there. We will get through this together.
Saddened to read “I’ll never have children.” You’re obviously still young and beautiful, so why not? Does the world really need more white babies born to liberal moms? Yes it really does! But perhaps what you will find more compelling is this: you will never fully experience womanhood without being a mother. (Same goes for men and fatherhood.) Your mother and grandmother would tell you the same I think.
Are you saying I'll never be satisfied until I pop out kids? What if I can't have kids? What I am to old? (i am) What if I couldn't afford it? What if I just never really wanted to have kids? All of those reasons apply to me. I am 42 now and pregnancy would be very high risk for me due to my age as well as other conditions that make it difficult for me. I probably look so young because I didnt have any. I know you meant well, but that kind of comment can come off as offensive to some women that maybe wanted children, but were unable to have them. just sayin....
Sorry. You have a point. I should not have made any assumptions about you. I thought you might be a trendy anti-Natalist liberal who thinks reproducing is immoral due to global warming and such. I’m ver pro-natalist because otherwise we will become an aged society unable to sustain welfare state as well as innovation. Children are a sign of the a society that has a future not just a past. We need to figure out some way of sustaining ourselves that does not involve repression and coercion.
We don’t have a strong or even cohesive women’s rights group anymore. NOW is toothless and invisible. Who is speaking for women? Organizing women? I tried to contact Stacey Abrams to see if she would organize one but there’s no way to get in touch with her…literally. No email, nothing. I read that E. Jean Carroll was funding a national women’s group and messaged her with no response and no further news about that. We need a leader and an organization. If you know of one - even a promising fledgling organization, please let me know so I can volunteer. Thank you.
8 years of being reminded that women are less than & that’s right where men want us. I haven’t stopped crying and probably won’t. Thank you for stating out loud what’s been in my head. I am not alone; we are not helpless when we rage scream together.
Thank you for this- Yes I feel the same way. I alternate between wanting to cry and break shit. And then laugh-cry while keying some bigot's car. It's all of the emotions at the same time- and being bi-polar doesn't help with any of this. Your comment perfectly defines this moment.
I feel beaten down this week also - something happened on 04/24/2024 that motivated me to reconsider whether I want to continue with some v. long friendships that I'm not really into anymore...other than by habit...and I mean like 20, 30 & even 50 year friendships. Time for a complete reassessment. I may have made a new younger friend this week, though - I don't know yet, but I'll give it some consideration. I can't relate to many ppl my own age anymore (70.) There's something terribly wrong w/most of them. - from a vintage feminist who knows more than she says.
I’m so sorry Maggie. You have a friend here - with me and this community of people. I know what it feels like to lose friends over political issues and in your age group many don’t seem very empathetic, I see this with my parents and their friends. I’ve lost family members and it is so mind blowing to me.
Being a vintage feminist you should start a Substack. I’d love to hear more of what you have to say.
Ty for your support, Liz. I'm starting to speak up w/abandon, but it's been a rough couple of weeks. Discarding friends is a difficult process - whether to explain why, or simply do a slow walk away. Ghosting is neither my style nor my proclivity, but I will post here in time. I'd just subbed Jessica V's Substack this week after being a voyeur for 6+ mos...wondering if I really want to be this furious so much of the time...not great for my blood pressure. I was so active in my youth for abortion rights, against our foreign war in Vietnam and the draft, for income equality & for 18 y.o.'s having the right to vote. We were successful on most of those fronts, but I'm supposed to be enjoying my retirement at this stage. Three steps forward and 20 steps backwards is what I see...very frustrating, but...
I would never start my own Substack. I don't wish to be in a pervasive state of fury, though what's going on is definitely infuriating. Keep up the good fight, Liz. Warriors like you & Jess have my complete support.
That has to be so so so incredibly crushing to know you fought for abortion rights and won…. Only to have them stripped away.
You saw first hand what an anti abortion America looked like. Honestly just speaking your story or comments even in notes is so helpful. I don’t know if enough people understand how bleak the situation will become if republicans win. I just started seeing a therapist to help with it - I was lucky to find one that takes insurance… because it’s just all too much to bear. That’s why we lean on each other. And thank you for subscribing to Jessica. Her work is so important!!!
Every few years I look at who are my current friends and trust my gut as to which ones I have an unhealthy relationship with that are ticks slowly sucking on my soul. Then I discard them. My life has improved since I started this practice.
Thank you for paving the road that we are running on now 💜
In this situation, it helps me to look for the Helpers. The Auntie Networks that are looking out for women who need support in practical ways. We’re out here.
I too am struggling with all this madness. I was gang raped in the military (back then they called it pulling a train) nothing happened to the men that did it. I was in training and they were the ones that supposedly were the trainers. I ended up in the hospital because I later found out that I was pregnant, I tried to kill myself. They gave me diseases that one always comes back to remind me of the worst thing that happened to me. The army gave me the abortion. In the seventies they said I was not going to make it with a rapist child. I know of many other women that was raped and even killed in the military by our own soldiers. The chaplain that came to visit me in the hospital said to me “boys will be boys and you are young and you will get over this .” WHEN? Because I haven’t, I tried to, I buried it and never spoke about it again. I went on to retire from the military, did several combat tours, but I still had the nightmares, I was married, he never understood me, why I didn’t like being touched sometimes. I never told him, I told him about my friend that happened to be a victim and he actually said that she probably deserved it. Any way I am so afraid and angry about what is happening now in America with women. It is a case of mind over matter. They don’t mind because we as women don’t matter.
Oh my god Cynthia I’m so sorry you had to go through that. It must be so insulting to see republican lawmakers trying to get rid of the military’s ability to provide abortion care for women in anti abortion states. What you went through is truly hideous and appalling… I have no words other than I’m glad you are here and we are grateful to hear your story.
Keep telling your story because we have to work together to change things. I hope that you have network of supportive family and friends . And you have the thousands of unknown women who have a deep connection with you. There are no words that could wash away your feelings but know that you are never alone because whether we were assaulted, harassed or neither just being a woman gives you our collective energy. Take good care of yourself.
It is such a hard thing to realize that people you don’t even know can be making life changing decisions without even caring how they we affect you. And the state of women’s reproductive health care is teetering on going over the cliff.
At almost 70, I’m experiencing deja vu all over again. I’ve been down the road of discrimination, misogyny, sexual harassment, and laws that discounted our independence and intelligence. During my teen years, our civil rights were inching ahead slowly and the Equal Rights Amendment was passing in the states. Until housewife and wanna be lawyer Phyllis Schlafly gathered together a pretty powerful anti-ERA movement and convinced women that “women would have to go to war” and we would loose all the inherent rights granted to us frail-flowers plus we would have to share public bathrooms. It worked!
We never got enough states to ratify something so basic as women being full fledged citizens and part of the Constitution. It would have been a game-changer and would have helped us defend the very rights they want to deny us now.
In my 20s, I started to feel women were going get the changes we wanted but it was going to be a climb. Then Roe v. Wade was the ground breaking decision which made women elated. In my 30s, our society had grown to so women could select careers beyond school teacher and nurse.
In my 40s, equal pay for equal work was being arbitrated in the court’s continuously Most cases were defeated with sexist reasons or technicalities. In my 50s, women began saying “I’m not a feminist.” It was as if all the struggles never happened. The word became tainted except for the diehards. In my sixties, there were and are many “women’s issues” that reared their ugly head from “sneaky” laws or actions/inactions to overturning Roe and creating the firestorm we are in now.
It seems like we spent our time and efforts on the “headline” and not on incremental ways “women have become disrespected and hated. Funding for “women’s issues” like testing the thousands of rape kits that are in storage across the country - justice
PART 2
Justice denied because no one wants to spend the money. Rapists are often repeat offenders. How many women were raped because no one made the effort to find and stop them. Maternal death rates in the United States are appalling and twice as high for women of color. Really can go on and on.
I too am frustrated and so very angry. God damnit, we did the work and now we are back in the 1850s. I do not ever remember a time where the absolute hatred of women was so very blatant. Oh, it existed but it was covered in sugar topped with whip cream and topped with a cherry. Sorry, I’m not going to fall for that.
Now we are experiencing full force “we’re going to teach ‘em”. They have taken the “we won’t let babies die” approach like never before. But you do let babies die because you just want to penalize women heck with the children. When 15 states turned away federal funds to feed impoverished children or after birth medical care funding is disappeared or when pregnant women are in crisis they are turned away at the ER or when a young single woman is told to just go home without any information or assistance with an active miscarriage.
The good news is there are plenty of old feminists like myself who aren’t going to abandon you. We are standing up for
for every woman and all future women. Just let me know if any of you need an old woman’s extra support.
Things look bad now but it’s always darkest before the dawn. Plus there are a lot more wonderful feminist men to join us and defeat the sexist pigs.
THANK YOU Sharon. This made me tear up. Through so much darkness I'm feeling a ray of hope, or at least the embrace from women around the country who are fired the F up and ready to do this. I waiver between fury and hopelessness and then fiery motivation. Your comments give me hope. And I truly believe that women might be staying relatively quiet (especially non maga conservative women) but are also seething inside and will quietly vote blue in November. Because even they have to know at this point, it was never about saving babies. It is and has always been about controlling women.
So glad I could share my 70 year feminist trek. I know what you mean up and down every day. Yesterday I hit a wall I was too tired to climb over. I too get so much from the Substack community. It’s almost like a daily refresher. Just know if you reach out someone will grab your hand.
I thank you, Sharon. Every syllable hit home.
Unfortunately for many women in the world things go darker before going black.
Margaret Atwood wrote a whole book about it. The GOP thinks it’s a game plan.
When they watch the handmaids tale they aren’t rooting for June
Thank you for this ❤️ I’m sorry you’re feeling this way but as a person who is also feeling this way (and a fellow Liz), it’s just nice to know that I’m not alone. I’m a survivor too and it really does feel just as that abuse did. I’m a working mom and sometimes I cheer myself up reminding myself just how much my life would drive these ghouls crazy. We will always be free and they hate us for it. But I love us for it 💪❤️
Thank you Liz. And one or my favorite hobbies is making these ghouls crazy. ESPECIALLY the incels and they are abundant on social media.
As a working mom I know it’s fucking hard- my mom raised us single in Los Angeles and that was fucking hard. Being a mom is hard enough. Add on the rest of the shit women in America deal with and it’s enough to send anyone over the edge.
I can’t even breathe… I was born sick but I have worked since 15 & before that we had chores for our allowance. I will never have children either. My body was badly damaged from my childhood rape and since it was my first time I thought violence was how it was supposed to be. Instead the violence was because he was pissed that all that time he spent grooming me meant nothing because I meant my commitment to God. I meant my commitment to be a virgin until I was married so he had to tie me up. Now I am so sick that I can’t work and waiting to be accepted into an undiagnosed disease program (I’ve been diagnosed with around 100 chronic and autoimmune diseases) and the correlation of being sick and thinking SO MUCH is undeniable that I’m killing myself by disgust of the state of this Nation and to your point I’m stuck in the South (Tennessee) and a trigger state at that. I’m none of the things my state represents. It’ll always be home because of my family. I love the sports and sure you can find awesome people, but the state’s politics are horrible. I have chosen abstinence to assure I don’t get pregnant. My doctors say I’d need an abortion if I got pregnant and I’ve never been pregnant thankfully, well other than one time I appeared to be having a miscarriage but I never knew. After that I never even had a scare and I’m sure it’s from damage to my body but also endometriosis. However, I know if I were to get pregnant in Tennessee where it’s now illegal to go out of the state and a literal crime to do so for an abortion—I have decided to ask for a hysterectomy to ensure that doesn’t happen and help the pain of endometriosis. That’s where I’m at and thank you for writing this. I feel like I’m going completely insane at times.
Dear Whitney-
Thank you for sharing your heartbreaking story and considerable ongoing struggle. It breaks my heart hearing about all you have been through. I too struggle with endometriosis, and I know how painful it can be. I hope that you are able to get the medical and mental healthcare you deserve. I know how awful autoimmune diseases are and it doesn't help when the medical community tells you "there is nothing wrong- you're just imagining it..."
I wish I could do something to make it all better for you, it truly makes me sad. I am just grateful you feel comfortable coming here and sharing your story, like many of the brave women who have posted in the comments here. I appreciate all of you so much. Consider this a virtual hug.
Thank you for your reply! It means a lot to know there are other women who are fed up and to see people sharing stories. We all share trauma and together can have strong voices. It’s hard to reassure ourselves with the current political climate, but it feels like a time to share raw emotion. People respond to true feelings and hopefully it will inspire them to demand change as well. I know if at least two women in Tennessee who were septic by the time they were able to get medical care…
Omg that’s awful
I'm waiting for them to decide I serve no purpose whatsoever since I am long past childbearing years 🙄
Same here. I guess we will just have to become Marthas. Do you know how to make bread?
😉🏆
❤️🫶🏼💪🏻🚴♀️
Love you.
I am sending you love, Liz. I’m having one of the worst years of my life for reasons I won’t enumerate, but one of the things that helps me is knowing there are amazing women out there - men too - who aren’t afraid to express their pain and fear and rage. It makes me feel more able to manage my own. We can and do hold each other up. So I’m sending you love, and I’m sending love to all of the people who need it ♥️
Much love to you Jessica. Someone said somewhere.... 2024 is going to be the worst and most consequential year of our lives. They weren't wrong. But yes, we have each other and it makes me feel better knowing you all are out there. We will get through this together.
thank you.
Don't let them make you feel this way. They're not worth it. Everyone with an ounce of sanity knows what kind of scum they are. Keep fighting.
Saddened to read “I’ll never have children.” You’re obviously still young and beautiful, so why not? Does the world really need more white babies born to liberal moms? Yes it really does! But perhaps what you will find more compelling is this: you will never fully experience womanhood without being a mother. (Same goes for men and fatherhood.) Your mother and grandmother would tell you the same I think.
Are you saying I'll never be satisfied until I pop out kids? What if I can't have kids? What I am to old? (i am) What if I couldn't afford it? What if I just never really wanted to have kids? All of those reasons apply to me. I am 42 now and pregnancy would be very high risk for me due to my age as well as other conditions that make it difficult for me. I probably look so young because I didnt have any. I know you meant well, but that kind of comment can come off as offensive to some women that maybe wanted children, but were unable to have them. just sayin....
Sorry. You have a point. I should not have made any assumptions about you. I thought you might be a trendy anti-Natalist liberal who thinks reproducing is immoral due to global warming and such. I’m ver pro-natalist because otherwise we will become an aged society unable to sustain welfare state as well as innovation. Children are a sign of the a society that has a future not just a past. We need to figure out some way of sustaining ourselves that does not involve repression and coercion.
Nah I just have my own reasons
Damn ReThugz/MAGATz🤬🤬
We don’t have a strong or even cohesive women’s rights group anymore. NOW is toothless and invisible. Who is speaking for women? Organizing women? I tried to contact Stacey Abrams to see if she would organize one but there’s no way to get in touch with her…literally. No email, nothing. I read that E. Jean Carroll was funding a national women’s group and messaged her with no response and no further news about that. We need a leader and an organization. If you know of one - even a promising fledgling organization, please let me know so I can volunteer. Thank you.