Title: My Life in a Female Supremacy. I was 15 when I first learned about… | by myideaofyou | Mixed Company | Medium
Headings: My Life in a Female Supremacy
My Life in a Female Supremacy
Content: Thank god (aka livejournal) I discovered feminism at about the same time, because in addition to being confused and scared by all of these new developments, I also got ANGRY. I saw my own experience as part of a global, pervasive system of inequality and oppression. The same system that now gave men permission to treat me as a public sexual object (see also: rape culture), when expressed to a different degree, denied sexual pleasure to over 200 million women and girls across the world (google: FGM), robbed female workers of equitable pay, and produced such deep-seated self-hate that almost every girl I knew was either developing an eating disorder or fantasizing about plastic surgery. The following year, I took my high school’s Women’s Studies class and started wearing a spiked dog collar and made a DIY T-Shirt with a cat face inside a Venus symbol and the words “pussy power” across the chest. Just a sixteen year old grrrl learning to crush patriarchy. Maybe my teenage militarism was a preview of what’s to come, but it took me until this year to really decide, you know, being a feminist is frankly not enough anymore. At 31, I am casting my official support for Female Supremacy. I’d like to tell you why, but let’s first do a check-in.