I'm awake and it's late. I'm not going to lie, it's because my ovaries hurt. There, I said it. MY OVARIES HURT! This experience has catalysed a list compiling excercise of all that wrong with being born female. To begin...
1) Child birth - pain, placenta, lots of pain
2) On average women get paid 15% less than men for doing comparative work.
3) Waxing.
4) The expectation of changing your surname when married
5) Going to clubs in winter and having to wear dresses.
6) For my muslim sisters out there, having no rights whatsoever and being treated like substandard humans. Stonings, burqa's, restricted access to education, beatings etc etc.
7) For my African sisters out there, female genital mutilation.
8) Domestic duties
9) Being naturally physically weaker than males
10) Not being able to talk to an unknown male when out (if you have a boyfriend) without others raising eyebrows.
11) Stocking crotch sag. Stockings never fit.
12) Buying a new pair of stockings every week because they seem to be one-use only before getting covered in holes.
13) Menstruation and then one day menopause. Yuck.
14) Girl group politics
15) In relation to the above point, psychological studies have shown that some 40% of women will deliberately tell their girlfriends that what they're wearing looks good if it doesn't. This is so they will look better in comparison and have more luck with potential mates. In other words, girls are bitches.
16) Cosmo and cleo magazines.
17) Gossip Girl - everything wrong with the female world compacted into 30 minutes of viewing.
18) For my Chinese sisters out there, the "one child policy" means that most Chinese parents want a male heir and therefore you will most likely be abandoned by a roadside.
19) Child birth (the need to reemphasise this seemed necessary)
There's plenty more but the four valarian tablets and 3 pandol I just took have just kicked in and I'm getting drowsy. Very drowsy indeed.
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