Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.
Remembering how when my Mum left, my Dad still didn't learn to cook or do anything else she'd been doing solo all those years.
I quickly taught myself to cook at age 10, using books from the library, as soon as I realised that every meal with my father was going to be a bag of frozen sausage rolls, plain toast, or nothing at all. By 13, I was cooking meals for him too.
And that's how male incompetence trains women.
@grizzytyz@jadedzx@iskipshowers You’re talking about abuse, not consensual sex you fuckass weirdo that’s why none of you got women, yall are gameless idiots
@bksl8tergirl@Layyenne How is it selfish, if the people who need it go for it? People who want to be parents but can’t be often resort to an egg or a sperm donor, but that doesn’t mean that the donor themselves should have to look after a kid they did not even consent to have themselves?