I’m not celebrating my uterus (and you’re not allowed to either)

I hate TERF rhetoric so much and for so many different reasons...the reason I'm about to share isn't necessarily in my top reasons, mind you, but it's one I keep thinking about today...

I don't have any interest in celebrating my fucking uterus.

Like if one of the ways that you personally want to counter the shit messages of the patriarchy is to exalt your own genitals and reproductive/pregnancy capabilities, cool I guess, but miss me with your general womb positivity and universal elevation of so called (gag) "lady parts."

I have no use for what my uterus was "designed to do" (aka procreate.) Since I was 12, she has given me nothing but trouble...for years it was cramps and such a heavy period I had to eventually purchase the largest capacity menstrual cup in the world and still empty it like 4 times a day. And for the past 6-8 years, as someone with endometriosis, who has had to have multiple softball sized endometriomas removed surgically, my uterus is my most problematic body part in many ways. Constant spotting...causing cramping and pain in my entire abdomen and even affecting my intestines and making it hard to do much more than lay in bed crying for a couple days at a time.

I'm immovable in my hatred of her. I didn't ask for a body part whose tissue would grow out of control and attach to any surface it could find, causing so much pain and literally no benefit in my life.

Anyway, I hate anything that sounds like there's no space to just feel neutral or even really REALLY negative about uteruses and ovaries.

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