Moreover, in a hundred years, I thought, women will have ceased to be the protected sex. Logically they will take part in all the activities and exertions once denied them. The nursemaid will heave coal. The shop woman will drive an engine. All assumptions founded on the facts observed when women were the protected sex will have disappeared - as for example, that women, and clergyman and gardeners live longer than other people. Remove that protection, expose them to the same exertions and activities, make them soldiers and sailors, engine-drivers and dock labourers, and will not women die off so much younger, so much quicker than men, that one will say, “I saw a woman today,” as one once would say, “I saw an aeroplane.” Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
-Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One’s Own
In honor of International Women’s Day, this issue is dedicated to all the ladies. In general, I don’t celebrate anyone for an immutable trait or lifestyle. I celebrate people I believe have done something worth acknowledgment. I celebrate the feminine, not women. Just as I celebrate the masculine, not men. Therefore this issue is not so much a celebration, but more a call-out. I’ll let you decide what that means.
I read A Room Of One’s Own this week. Mainly because it was referenced by Mark Vernon in a lecture I was participating in but the timing was impeccable. A reminder of just how far women have come in just so little time. In the essay, Woolf’s message is simple: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to create. She describes a 1912 scene of women not allowed in libraries and so eloquently argues against men having to put women down in order to build themselves up. Calling out bad actors like Napoleon and Mussolini for emphatically insisting on the inferiority of women as a means of enlarging themselves.
I’m afraid this last message has been lost over the course of the past several decades. The tides have turned - women believing they need to point out the inferiority of their male counterparts as a means of empowering themselves. It is for this reason I have turned up my nose at the feminist movement. Along with the undeniable oversight that in becoming a “feminist” one must agree to become more masculine. Trying to get our fair share by removing ourselves from everything feminine always seemed like a strange idea. Become a feminist by becoming masculine? Huh? Emulate everything you supposedly despise about men and define that as a victory? Promiscuity, excess workloads, lack of work-life balance, higher rates of alcoholism - that’s not progress.
While a fight for equal treatment was necessary in the times of literary greats like Jane Austin, Virginia Woolf and even as recent as Maya Angelou, it appears women have become St. George in retirement. There are no more dragons to slay so create them in our imaginations. The women living in eras of blatant discrimination wanted equal treatment, not special treatment. They embraced the feminine spirit - the divine spirit represented through traits such as collaboration, nurture, communication, empathy, caregiving, positive emotions and intuition. They didn’t view their femininity as weakness but as a strength.
I am confident Virginia Woolf didn’t see this coming. We haven’t properly carried the torch carried for us over the past several hundred years. Instead we put out the flame by snuffing out the beauty of the feminine.
The First Lady presented the International Women of Courage award to a biological male. While this is a disgusting insult, it is partly our fault. If we blur the lines for decades, this will be the result. If we cannot clearly define what it means to be a woman, we can’t expect others to respect it. It’s just so ironic that the leftist women who fought as feminists have now rolled over to celebrate men pretending to be women.
Women with period pain will be given as much paid 'menstrual leave' as they need under new laws approved in Spain
The law entitles workers experiencing period pain to as much time off as they need, with the state social security system - not employers - picking up the tab for the sick leave.
Labour plan to give menopausal women right to work from home
According to an article in The Telegraph, Menopausal women will be given new rights such as being allowed to work from home if they are struggling with symptoms, under Labour plans.
Launching the policy on Tuesday, Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, will say that middle-aged women should not have to “suffer in silence” and instead should be supported to “thrive” in the workplace.
This could include being allowed to work flexible hours, with more breaks, and having paid time off for health appointments.
It could also mean allowing female workers adjustments to their uniforms and more rights over temperature control in the workplace, such as being allowed access to a fan to cope with hot flushes.
Under a Labour government, all companies with over 250 employees will be required to submit an annual action plan that sets out what adjustments they are making to support their female employees going through menopause.
One in ten female workers left their jobs due to menopausal symptoms in 2022, according to a recent survey of over 4,000 women aged 45-55.
So let me be sure I have this straight - women fought for decades to be in the workforce. We’re no different than our male counterparts. Except when we menstruate, have babies, and go through menopause. We need special treatment for those times - which just so happens to be the entirety of our working lives. Got it. Maybe we just don’t want to be in the workforce as much as we thought we did.
One looming question remains - since people now have periods, no longer just women, can we soon expect these menstruation and menopausal workplace clauses for everyone?
In their endless push for the urgency of vaccinations, the CDC sites numbers of deaths of infants from whopping cough in terms without any statistical significance. Nowhere do they state the number of infants born worldwide each year and the number who die each year. That’s not scary enough to make big pharma enough money. Instead they spew this…
Read by anxious new mothers as - 7 in 10! My kid is going to turn blue and die!
I can’t tell you the actual number of babies who die each year from whooping cough because I couldn’t locate any reliable studies, ya know the ones not sponsored by The Gates Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub or any other drug dealer funding the research labs at all of our academic institutions. I also don’t really give a shit about research studies because I’m still capable of using my right hemisphere and indulging in common sense and reason.
Below are the charts of the current vaccination schedule in the U.S. You’ll have to excuse the large number of images but the list is so long, it required multiple snapshots. I didn’t want to simply describe the schedule, I wanted you to see it with your very own eyes. These visuals say more than I ever could but let me point out one critical point: why is the U.S. adding the Covid vaccine to their list of recommendations when the rest of the world is prohibiting it, for anyone under age 40 in some countries? The FDA is a corrupted organization that’s why and big pharma spends more on marketing ads than they do on research.
The U.S. is a bottomless profit pit with its’ apathetic, spoiled, indulgent, and lazy adult sized brats. And the same people who believe their relatives should have to get a whooping cough booster to see their babies are offering their children up as guinea pigs to corporate greed. Shoot em up with pharmaceuticals but don’t give them peanuts. Don’t let them go outside and play in the sunshine - creativity and exercise will keep them out of the system! Strap them into chairs to receive an education that will get them nowhere but in debt and begging the government to take care of them. Load them up with foods from the food industrial complex and when they can’t sit still, give ‘em a few pills. That’ll settle the unruly little fuckers down.
Then when they’re obese at age 12, cut out their stomachs. Not only will this ensure they take more meds but it’ll lessen their life spans as well. Problem solved. The planet is over-populated anyway. If they happen to make it through puberty without altering their facial hair, mutilating their genitalia, or committing suicide, they have a bright future ahead! They get to face the harsh realities of life with poor immune systems, fragile mindsets, meager interpersonal skills and absolutely no resiliency or coping mechanisms.
What a fine future!
Women everywhere - at what point do you stop listening to “the powers that be” and start listening to your feminine instincts? The only reason big pharma is getting away with this nonsense is because mom’s are lining up to put their kids into the system.
Not much changed in the world of dangerous bugs invading our bodies between 1986 and 2019, yet the CDC Vaccine Schedule went from a total of 12 shots to 54. Injecting children with 70 different antigens and 16 different diseases.
Contrary to popular belief, abortion is a cultural issue, not a healthcare topic. It is also an issue near and dear to my heart. As a mother to a child who died the day she was born due to a chromosome anomaly and another child who by most standards would be casually referred to as “unwanted,” I’m not willing to sit this one out - I think I’ve earned my right to sit at the abortion discussion table.
There are approximately 930,000 abortions performed in the U.S. each year. That’s over 2500 babies each and every day who meet their demise at the hands of their own mothers. Call me crazy but I would hardly describe this as progress for women. When Roe v. Wade was overturned (a correction to a decision that on legal merit was flawed from the start) I was horrified by the comments from women. Mom’s taking to the airways crying for the loss their daughters are facing. How would their daughters ever live a good life without the right to kill their babies? I for one, have higher hopes for my daughter - who herself was technically “unwanted.” And while we’re on the subject, I take issue with that term - “unwanted.” Just because YOU don’t want your child, I assure you somebody else does. You give your Lululemon away all time - technically unwanted but your last year’s print is somebody else’s new yoga wardrobe. I thank Scarlett’s birth mother every day for her willingness to make a selfless decision. As someone who also handed over my child (to God, not an orphanage) I empathize with her. I sure wish she could see what a beautiful, gifted, funny, moral, uncompromising and determined girl she made in her womb for me to raise.
I will not deny the legal issues around a person’s rights over their own body are complex but it is obvious the issue has become far removed from reality. The lives of our children have been reduced to shouting rights over our bodies. We argue about rare instances of rape and threat to the mother’s health (which are conflated and highly misunderstood) when 61% of women having abortions in 2020 had already had at least one child of their own. No words.
Ladies, we have not only gone backwards - we have lost touch with what it means to carry the feminine spirit - the nurturing side of the divine.
52 year old Agnes Lassalle, a Spanish language teacher at Saint Thomas Aquinas middle school in a small seaside village in France, was stabbed to death by a student a few weeks ago. Her funeral was held this week and her partner danced in front of her casket. Her friends joined in and I shed countless tears as I watched. Here is a woman to be celebrated. Nobody I could have ever known but someone who was obviously doing something right - dedicating her life to improving the minds of others. And a partner would could find joy and beauty in the darkest of darkness. This is a woman I would have loved to know.
Oh the beauty of the feminine.