birthday after the tragedy -or- how woman hating has affected my life
I reject this little box that society has put me in because i don’t have a penis. i am a problem solver. I see patterns. Patterns are what are beautiful to me. I am a visual thinker. I can model something unsolvable by embedding it within a larger context by way of continua.. There is no stopping mind. Yet have I been granted intellectual freedom to just be the kind of thinker I am? Yes and no. THe NO is what I’m ranting about today.
I have sort of tripped through life, the lover of problem solving and living in mind, as it were , as others tell me is ‘objectively’. i never questioned the weird double standards for women as i encountered them, I played with them. I wanted others with whom to sort and solve and play about ideas. So when I met one group or individual attuned to these ways of being in the world I thought …