I have boobs, therefore I am burdened.
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Kristen - Jul 23, 2008 11:35:55 am PDT #1259 of 4535
Monique - Jul 23, 2008 11:36:25 am PDT #1260 of 4535
After a mastectomy, do I no longer bear the Burden of Womanhood?These are the questions that now burden me.
If I need a mastectomy later in life, after I've already had the hysterectomy, then am I completely free of the Burden?
Kat - Jul 23, 2008 11:37:17 am PDT #1261 of 4535
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think the Burden is not as facile as boobs or wombs. The Burden is the matching X chromosome.
Kristen - Jul 23, 2008 11:38:21 am PDT #1262 of 4535
So we're like Mutants then.
Dana - Jul 23, 2008 11:38:47 am PDT #1263 of 4535
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm pretty sure about my humanity, but there are plenty of people in the world I wouldn't trust on the subject.
Burrell - Jul 23, 2008 11:53:30 am PDT #1264 of 4535
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I think the burden is simply difference, and the struggle is to define oneself and that difference in a way that is empowering. But where that difference shows up? Isn't necessarily the same for different people, so perhaps for one woman it's her boobs, for another being a mother, for another it's not being one, etc.
enh. Rereading this, it feels a bit oversimplified and vapid, but maybe you get my meaning.
I'm pretty sure about my humanity, but there are plenty of people in the world I wouldn't trust on the subject.
Yeah, I thought about it more and you're right. In many ways we're lucky that we can assume that for the most part our humanity is recognized.
Daisy Jane - Jul 23, 2008 12:04:33 pm PDT #1265 of 4535
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
In many ways we're lucky that we can assume that for the most part our humanity is recognized.
Maybe compared to women elsewhere, but I do question whether my humanity is recognized when a)someone can decide they don't want to do their fucking job and give me my prescribed medicine. b) men seem feel they are entitled to my body because they don't drive a motorcycle and manage to be polite or c) it seems perfectly rational to outlaw a method for me to keep my body healthy.
Things like that kinda make me feel like my humanity is in question.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 23, 2008 12:06:34 pm PDT #1266 of 4535
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
So we're like Mutants then.
To me, my Wo-Men!
Kristen - Jul 23, 2008 12:14:16 pm PDT #1267 of 4535
I refuse to wear yellow spandex. IJS.
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2008 12:20:09 pm PDT #1268 of 4535
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I get what you're saying, DJ. The idea that influential decision makers have rated your reproductive system second-grade.