There a very few things a woman can say that will have me angry enough to tear into her publicly. I’m just not that woman. I believe we have enough going on, more than enough hatred just going about our daily lives.
And then things like this happen.
I am old enough to understand that some people have deeply rooted beliefs, and that their reasons can feel quite compelling to those who hold them. But, to sit in a place of moral judgement, and to call for the moral judgement of other women, I find that completely unacceptable. Distasteful. Disgusting.
There are dozens of reasons women are on hormonal birth control. The reason behind a woman being on hormonal birth control should be between that woman and her physician.
Period.
To be a woman who has allegedly been on hormonal birth control, and then go on to judge other women for being on hormonal birth control. How do you justify the hypocrisy? Someone please explain this to me.
Better still, to insinuate that all other women, except you, of course, are on birth control because they’re having illicit sexual encounters, the likes of which haven’t been seen since Debbie Does Dallas, that’s a special sort of hypocrite.
The absolute nerve. I’m so angry I would stutter if I were speaking aloud right now.
What a woman decides for herself, medically and otherwise, is not for public debate. Yet we’re told we have to explain our actions constantly by the public at large. What we eat, what we wear, if we work, how we raise children, the list is neverending.
But for a woman to call out other women in such a disgusting and accusatory manner? That’s brazen.
I wouldn’t have a word to say if literally every woman I know is having illicit sexual encounters and is taking birth control for that exact reason. Why? Because it’s not my body. Not my life. Not my affair.
Period.
If you’re a woman who’s sitting in judgement of the lives of other women, maybe you should let that marinade for a moment.
We already have enough problems. Why are you deciding to be one for another woman?
Get a hobby, sis.
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This post was previously published on MEDIUM.COM.
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