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Open Letter to Feminism Part 2

Feminism, you told me I had "low self esteem" because I believed a man who would work for me and my family is entitled to appreciation and submission to his decisions because he has earned the right to be a leader of our family by proving we are his priority and guiding us in the right direction thus far.

You and those of your ilk laughed and said that I was "pathetic and ego less" because I dared to believe the male instinct of protecting his woman with his own life is an admirable quality, not a treacherous controlling one. As a result of all the "real women" speeches you gave I thought I was lazy unless I shuffled my kids off to day care to be raised by a stranger and stuffed my parents in a nursing home so that I could work side by side with men in a factory.

When my feet were aching from a 12 hour shift and I came home too tired to listen to my child's first new words, you said I should be thankful for your accomplishments in the working world, a world I didn't even want to belong to. Your brainwashing forced me to miss first steps, first teeth, first dances and first days of school because my self-esteem was shit unless I was living up to the feminist icons you constantly shoved down my throat.

You used those biceps to bury my pain of missing those first moments way down deep under the load of crap you fed me about "equality". And despite working my ass off, fucking as I seen fit, raising kids on my own and not shaving my legs you STILL told me I was not a true feminist because I felt a twinge of truth when I read that the women flooding the work force were lowering the wages and job availability for men to take care of their family. Somewhere deep down inside my heart lurched at the knowledge that I was condemning a sister to the awful duty of a two family income and depriving her of a man who would treat her better as a result of his increased self esteem now that he could provide.

When I would question as to if it was fair that your ideology was beginning to take away the choice from women to either mother or career you would have my "sisters" shame and avoid me both in my friend network and work place. That was really cruel because you should know better than anyone that as a woman I need to socialize with fellow females because my brain requires interaction to maintain its endorphin and seratonin levels. Our biology is so dependent upon interaction with other females that our menstruations will even cease if we do not interact with other women enough. And so, your delivering me into isolation thus causing a biological depression served as punishment for questioning your authority. I thought you weren't a supporter of using oppression, feminism. You know what I am most angry with you about? That you insist I must be a "man hater" even if I hold a son to my breast.