I am going to be a B!TCH. Not that I wasn't already one, but I mean I am seriously done keeping my mouth closed. I am a Women's Studies major because frankly I love womyn and I love being a womyn. But frankly, at this point if it doesn't have to do with womyn, I dont care. I am not concerned with more of the deeper politics. I hate the Matrix of Domination and intersections of oppressions.
But back to me being a bitch, I have completely realized that 1.) I scare people even when I'm not trying, so why fight it. 2.) Nothing ever gets done when you spend all your time compromising. 3.) It is rare for anyone to even try to challege you or attempt to mess with you. I have met a few men that this doesn't apply to, one of which finds pure joy in making me angry, but luckily part of being a bitch is finding pure joy in making someone else look stupid. I have heard on more than one account (this semester) that my role in life is to "cook, clean and look pretty for a man." This originally came up on light crew in theatre, I'm guessing he didn't catch the 'lesbian' card. But then I was told about a comment that was made in one of my classes that I missed about how women should be staying home with the kids and that women should have to follow certain codes of dress and so on... I'm a little sad/angry/annoyed that I missed class. But in retrospect the likelihood he would have said that with me in the room is slim.
I don't think that you are being a bitch if you are standing up for what you believe in, especially if you have experience and facts to prove them wrong!
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