We complain about the shit sandwich we're still eating as women in the West, but read this very pertinent piece in the NYT by Mona Eltahawy and spare a thought for our KSA sisters. Even in privilege they are slaves, acknowledged or not.
As both she and Atwood point out, everything in THT has happened to us somewhere in actuality and much of it is still womens' daily, lifelong reality.
Why does it suck to be women? I feel as though we are perpetually waving away the mud from the bottom of the lake in our investigative dive into the human psyche, only to find yet more mud.
Sometimes I don't know if I really want to know.
As both she and Atwood point out, everything in THT has happened to us somewhere in actuality and much of it is still womens' daily, lifelong reality.
Why does it suck to be women? I feel as though we are perpetually waving away the mud from the bottom of the lake in our investigative dive into the human psyche, only to find yet more mud.
Sometimes I don't know if I really want to know.
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