https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with
“We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, women are angry, tired, and keen to get away from problematic men, we tell them their problem must be menopausal rage …”
“This woman-specific craziness somehow makes women incapable of ever being honest or rational …”
“Men are victimizing women en masse. It is men, not women, reacting in unhinged ways to normal human experiences like rejection. …”
“A woman is asked to go weeks or months without sleep while recovering from a major medical event, and almost always, she just does it, no matter how bad she feels. / Yet somehow we continue to believe that men are logical …”
But do read the whole thing!
