Amber Fraley
1 min readSep 8, 2022

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We want full equality. We want to be half of all institutions--that means half of judges, cops, CEOs, and politicians should be women. More teachers, nurses and etc. should be men. We want equal pay. We want paid maternity leave AND we want men to have paid leave to spend with their newborns as well. We want men to be full partners in child rearing and housework and yard work. We want men to be stay at home dads if they want and women to be able to be the primary breadwinner if they want. It's hilarious men think it's so complicated. It's just not.

As far as sex goes, women should be able to like sex without being shamed for it.

Monica Lewinsky is an example of a girl who was taught to use sex as an asset, that she was only important when an important man was interested in her sexually, and then when she "gave it up" she was shamed for it, which is a familiar story among women. It's not that she's a feminist icon. It's that she's a typical example of how young women are used, cast aside like soiled toilet paper and then publicly branded a whore, and lots of women can identify. That's all.

Men's ideas about feminism can be so funny.

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Amber Fraley
Amber Fraley

Written by Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.

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