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Women in America Have an Enemy and Its Name Is the Republican Party
No Country For Old Women… or young women… or women.
Every morning I wake up and immediately thank GOD I was born a man.
It’s not that I don’t appreciate women, I LOVE and ADORE women and barely tolerate men as a rule. BUT being born male is just a WAY easier life. I can walk about freely and rarely be harassed and subjected to yelled-out, weird, comments about my chest or ass as I do so. Someone won’t leap out of a doorway to drag me into an alley to beat me or rape me or both.
I DON’T LIVE IN FEAR — BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE TO LIVE IN FEAR.
ONE OUT OF EVERY SIX AMERICAN WOMEN HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF ATTEMPTED OR COMPLETED RAPE.
Go to a party. There are 12 women at that party. Two of those women were raped or near raped.
Also, I’ll never have to have an abortion performed upon my own body or ever be forced to make such a decision alone. Nor would I have to be subjected to the whims of devious, greedy, old men as to whether I would even have the right to make that important decision about my own body. About my own life.