Sophie Gilbert

Bodies, Literature, Choice

On Womanhood

Helen 

As teenagers, we were taught how to put condoms on bananas, but not how to ask boys to wear them. We were taught trigonometry and Catullus and the history of feminism, but not how to apply the idea that we are equal human beings to social situations in which we are seen as prey. 

To be a girl is to be perfectly vulnerable to predation: sexual, emotional, and even intellectual. 

Misogyny will always occupy any space it's given. 

The scope of stories about men is totally different. In literature men do; women often simply are. 

BUT IF SEX HAS always been a battleground, reproduction is its most charged front. 

On Womanhood Bodies, Literature, Choice

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