Close your eyes and pretend that you are still a person with the right to make your own, most intimate decisions about your future.
Close your eyes and remember when planning your own family wasnt considered dirty, when owning your body was still your birthright and the right to give birth also included the right not to.
Close your eyes and forget that you are supposed to be a mindless object of desire, to be salivated over and then dismissed, used by men to sell beer and shoes and laundry detergent, expected to exist only for their sexual pleasure, reviled for feeling it yourself, condemned for being what they so determinedly make you: a sexual being.
So come here, little girl, heres a push-up bra, stilettos and a chastity belt. Learn now that sex is something for a man to do to a woman, not actually with her.
Understand that you must grow up to be either a slut, a dyke or a motherand a mother, and a mother.
|| Tracy Lynne Stout Meisky Eyes Closed, No Peeking
Dedicated to the governor of Pennsylvania, who suggested that women upset at being forced to have an unnecessary internal ultrasound should close their eyes, and to the Georgia legislator who wants to outlaw abortion even for a woman carrying a dead fetus because cows and pigs do it all the time , and to the gentleman in Wisconsin who wants to outlaw divorce and says that women who are abused by their husbands should just remember the good times, and and. and