Using his femurs as mallets. source

I hate how true this is. source

Good ol’ baby fever source

You're still on a leash. source

Caught a three day ban for “spreading hate” against marginalized groups because I said Nazis deserve to get punched. Fuck Reddit and fuck the fascists who run it. source

In the US of the 1860's only white males could take the bar exam. Arabella Mansfield took it anyway & got high scores. After winning a court case on the matter, she became the first woman in the US to be a lawyer. As a result, Iowa was the first state to allow women and minorities to practice law

owlcation.com/social-sciences/First-female-lawyer-in-the-United-States-Arabella-Mansfield source

A realization I had today source

it's my birthday... and not one soul cares

I'm on mobile and ugly crying so this is gonna be messy.

Do . Not. Ever. Make someone a priority while you are only their option.

Today is my birthday. I am a stay at home/disabled mom of 2 boys and been married for 10 years. My boys are 10 and 8. Old enough to do things on their own. Have their own thoughts. Plans. Feelings.

But all they've seen is me give up EVERYTHING and devote my every waking thought to their needs desires wants. I anticipate everything before they even ask. I do everything to make every little thing as special as possible. For all 3 of them. It's all they know.

I have lost my entire identity to being a wife and mom. I gave up my career health and friends being the default parent to a son who's behavior is so poor he can't last a week in a daycare/after school program. While my husband goes out at least once a week. My husband gets head at least weekly because I like my loved ones to feel... loved. It's his preferred sexual interaction. But I have to nag and beg for sex or even for him to kiss me while I masterbate. I'm telling you this so you can get an idea of how little my happiness or needs are thought of. And no, not even on my birthday will he think of me in any capacity

I spend 90 percent of my day alone, isolated in a small town with no friends or family because it's where his work is amd where my boys school is. I put their needs above mine.

And every year I set the bar lower because every year they never do anything.

Today? All I asked was to not be alone. I don't care if I have to do all the chores and parenting. I just don't want to be alone.

I woke my husband up st 5 6 amd 7. Then gave up. My kids got up at 7. I started making a giant homemade feast of a breakfast. By myself. They went and turned on cartoons without so much of a hug or saying happy birthday while my husband sleeps in for the 2nd day in a row. They ate their breakfast while I bawled in the kitchen.

I'm upstairs. No one has said a thing snd even if they do now, it's too little too late. Its not just my birthday when it's convenient for you.

Society told me being a wife and mother would make me happy. But it's taken every bit of self worth... confidence... love... identity... energy amd given nothing back

www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/xtpvsp/its_my_birthday_and_not_one_soul_cares/ source

Hold up, is Lizzo also a Mermaid/siren? 🧜🏾‍♀️ source

The friend with the long game source

FYI source

Sailor Moon was ahead of its time. source

Our Monday Morning Mantra ✨ source

Buckle in folks, things are gonna get a lot worse source

Jameela brilliantly shutting down men hating on the show source

High school girls in Iran source

When they’re kind enough to display the red flags front and center…well, color me brainwashed. source

I desperately need a sanity check. Is there anyone else here who is completely done with conservative men and doesn't care about their feelings?

American 25/w here. I recently made a friend with a man while I was out and about playing pokemon go. We started texting and had known each other for about two weeks before he told me that he's a conservative and to "not judge him". Fuck that. I am judging you extremely hard and I'll never be your friend. I'll never be friends with someone who votes in oppressive bigots who don't even have more than two brain cells to rub together. This guy said that I was being a bit extreme and judgmental. Huh, I wish I cared. I have one less constitutional right now and you've voted this trash in. Bye bye. I'm so completely done with conservatives that I don't even care to ask what the details of their personal views are and what legislation they support. I don't care, fuck all the way off.

Quick edit! First, thank you kindly for the supportive words. And a couple awards, whoa! Thank you! I was not expecting this post to get much attention at all and should have worded it better. I was frustrated with one man in particular while writing the post, so I focused on "conservative men" more so than "conservative people."

I am equally frustrated with both conservative men and women. Well, no, scratch that. While conservative women may have absolutely abhorrent politics, nobody is more butt hurt than a conservative man who can't get his dick wet.

www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/xvm4cg/i_desperately_need_a_sanity_check_is_there_anyone/ source

I Want a Wife source

saw this and the responses calling her an idiot made me irrationally furious source

Cancer is not killing me, misogyny is.

I have stage 4 cancer. My oncologist has reached out to 20 different drug trials, and all of them have refused to accept me because my tumor is producing a small amount of HCG that is causing positive pregnancy tests, despite my having an IUD and NOT being pregnant (an ultrasound confirmed this). There is chance I could be admitted onto a trial if I got my tubes tied but as I have scar tissue in my abdomen from a colostomy surgery and my lungs are in bad shape post pneumonia/covid, surgery would be particularly risky for me (not to mention that any errant cut could pierce cancerous tissue, causing it to further spread through my body).

For the record, an IUD is a MORE EFFECTIVE method of birth control than tubal ligation. Also, I don't WANT to have a child, I do not intend to have a child.

This apparently does not matter.

I have gone without treatment for over 3 months. I am going to die because I am a "woman of childbearing capacity" the health of a hypothetical fetus takes precedence over my life.

I'm scared and angry, and I just wanted to share with some people who would be angry with me.

ADDENDUM: I realize I’ve been a little imprecise with my language. Is it REALLY misogyny that’s killing me? More accurate to say it’s a Frankensteinian amalgam of misogyny, capitalism, oversight in the drafting of medical language, the interminably slow wheels of bureaucracy, the rarity of this particular circumstance, and good old-fashioned disease.

(But the fact remains that if I was a dude this wouldn’t be an ISSUE) (and i understand the whole thalidomide-baby-lawsuit issue, but my dumb-ass thought that I could like, sign a waver assuring people I wouldn’t be getting pregnant and wouldnt sue them if i did and then everything would be hunky-dory)(would that it were so simple)

For the record, the male oncologist who has been tryigg by to get me on trials is equally indignant about all this (and he’s a New Yorker, so he and I cuss about it freely, it’s very cathartic) and says the inclusion criteria of these trials should absolutely be changed to account for this admittedly rare scenario, but changing the language is a long term, future-people solution (I kinda need drugs sooner rather than later).

The current plan is to try a drug that he is not too optimistic about but is better than nothing, and do weekly pregnancy tests in hopes that the values drop low enough to show up negative.

Also, thanks for all the comments and the well-wishes and the awards. I feel very seen. ❤️

www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/xwqd2r/cancer_is_not_killing_me_misogyny_is/ source