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Right? I say this all the time. Do you want proof the Bible was written by men and not God? Because only a man would co-opt a birth story and make himself the creator(God supposedly did it but Eve was born of Adam) instead of the way women and other female animals create life. So if God created the people and the animals, why on earth would he make a nonsensical edit to creation that doesn’t take place very often in nature and is a one off?
In Ani Difranco’s song Blood in the Boardroom there’s a familiar scene of her(most of her work is autobiographical) getting her period unexpectedly in an office building full of men and finding the secretary to ask for a tampon.
This line changed how I viewed everything. It’s what made me realized that even our framing changes how we view a particular circumstance and that most of the framing even from our own minds is riddled with patriarchy. The secretary discreetly gives her the tampon and says what a hassle for you.
“it ain’t no hassle no, it ain’t no mess, right now its the only power that, that I possess, businessmen got the money that got the instruments of death. You know I can make life, you know I can make breath.”
This was the 90s so quite out of the mainstream but so needed. If men could give birth it would be exalted as a fucking super power.
Play God by her is also amazing. She has written at least 4 songs about her abortion experience before we were allowed to say that out loud without being shamed.
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