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Keep Your Legs Together
And other sexist bullshit
You know what I’m tired of? Like not just tired, but exhausted, fucking sick of hearing, for all of my 47 years here on earth?
Why don’t women just keep their legs together?
We’ve all heard it, and it may literally be the biggest load of crap ever unloaded on the female gender. Popular variations include:
- Why don’t women make better choices in men?
- Women should be more careful with birth control.
- If a woman isn’t ready to be a mother, she shouldn’t have sex.
As though women create unintended pregnancies all by ourselves.
You know what you’ll almost never hear when a teenage girl has to break it to her parents she’s pregnant? Or when a couple in their 40s discovers they’re pregnant again, and they’re getting older and more tired, and they already don’t know how they’re going to pay for their existing kids’ college?
- Why don’t men just keep it in their pants?
- Why aren’t men more careful with where they deposit their sperm?
