A little rant I just posted on facebook about a status I saw. Thought I'd share it here.
[ [un]Proud to be a woman! ]
"There's a rumour going around that males are tougher than females. Oh please. Can you carry a 7lb baby in your stomach for 9 months and survive hours of labour? Can you cook, clean,and talk on the phone all at the same time? Can you bleed for a week and not die? Can you walk in 5 inch heels? Can you cry all night then wake the next day like everything is okay? Remember guys, women are only helpless till their nail polish dries lol
Put this on your wall if your proud to be a woman!"
OK. Hold on. I understand the message of this status. It's anti sexist. I can dig it [not really, but for the sake of argument, just go with it.] But jeezus, look at the things it's saying a typical woman does. Doesn't that seem sexist? "Cook, clean, and talk on the phone"? "Walk in 5 inch heels"? "Cry all night"? Nothing about working a 9 to 5 job. Nothing about kicking ass in sports. Nothing about intelligence or being an awesome person.
I am a woman. I don't wear heels, I don't "cry all night". I clean stuff, yeah. But there's more to some of us than that. We also play bass, we play basketball, we go to college, we get careers, we do yardwork. Some of us don't dig the whole "typical stay at home with no life chick" thing. Some of us want to - and are quite capable of - kicking ass on our own.
If being a "proud woman" means being happy about staying home, torturing your body, and making babies, then no, I'm not a proud woman. So there.