Homeschooling Man Babies: Women. Can They Even Do That?

The one where they maybe, slightly, possibly learn

Aug 01, 2024

“She’s too emotional.” “She’s crazy.” “It’s her time of the month.”

There is a great deal of things women haven’t been allowed to do because of our reproductive systems. Our uteruses have long been the reason for discrimination.

Actually, some of us do have debilitating pain from our reproductive organs. I know many women who face life altering consequences from pain in this area. Thought of as normal, and ignored by male doctors, these issues weren’t investigated. Instead, these women’s pains were used against them, and against all women, as proof women couldn’t do the things men could. They couldn’t do them, because they were too weak. As for those whose pain actually was debilitating, no one cared enough to fix their problems, because the women who would care were barred from being doctors.

Often, the things that women were thought to be too hormonal to do, or too weak from menstruation to achieve, seem bizarre now. Will we one day look back and feel this way about how bizarre it was people thought a woman shouldn’t be president? Will future generations of these men understand?

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(As a reminder I do not know these men. They are messaging a satirical Facebook profile of me as a conservative.)

For this story, I set out to find a man whose views matched those I’ve seen before from conservative men, that Kamala shouldn’t be president because of her reproductive system. She will be too hormonal. She will not be good at it because women are meant to be mothers, and nothing else.

(For legal reasons I can’t tell you which man I chose or if he’s even one of the ones above, but his views are just the same.)

At the very least, if he stops parroting these ideas, other susceptible men will be less likely to hear them and agree. Surprisingly, on my quest to find conservative men who don’t want a woman to be president, I also found many who were okay with it.

Excuse me while I be sappy for a moment. These men are still terrible, but they would be okay with a woman for president, as long as it’s an equally terrible woman on their perceived side, and that is something to notice. That change, from women not being able to have a higher education, to women being prevented from getting a job once they could go to college, to women not being able to be promoted, to women not being able to lead, to women not being able to lead the country, that change has been slowly progressing from the tireless work of women from the past. When you feel like your voice isn’t making a difference, think about that change. We fight for our future daughters.

Sources:

The Female Mind in the Periodical Press: Henry Maudsley's "Sex in Mind and in Education" Mary Chapman

Sex in Education Henry Maudsley

Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World Danielle Friedman

The New England Medical Gazette: Volume 5 1870

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