Unleash me. Now.

And if a woman should say she doesn’t want to have children at all, the world is apt to go decidedly peculiar: ‘Ooooh, don’t speak too soon,’ it will say — as if knowing whether or not you’re the kind of person who desires to make a whole other human being in your guts, out of sex and food, then have the rest of your life revolve around its welfare, is a breezy, ‘Hey - whevs’ decision. Like electing to have a picnic on an unexpectedly sunny day or changing the background picture on your desktop. ‘When you meet the right man, you’ll change your mind, dear,’ the world will say, with an odd, aggressive smugness.

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Caitlin Moran, “How to Be a Woman” (via Buffy Plays With Demons)

OMG people say this to me all the time “if you meet the right guy you will”, no fuckface if I meet the right guy I’ll want to spend forever with him, and travel together, and have a life together but that WILL NOT include kids.

(via lyricalblueswing)

people tell me this all the fucking time. “wait until the right man comes along” is what i hear from every side. the right man already came along and he doesn’t want kids either.

There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged men—insist on playing devil’s advocate, desirous of a debate on some aspect of feminist theory or reproductive rights or some other subject generally filed under the heading: Women’s Issues. These intellectual, clever, engaged men want to endlessly probe my argument for weaknesses, want to wrestle over details, want to argue just for fun—and they wonder, these intellectual, clever, engaged men, why my voice keeps raising and why my face is flushed and why, after an hour of fighting my corner, hot tears burn the corners of my eyes. Why do you have to take this stuff so personally? ask the intellectual, clever, and engaged men, who have never considered that the content of the abstract exercise that’s so much fun for them is the stuff of my life.

- Melissa McEwan (via lavender-labia)

(Source: sanitywatchers)