🔵 By Weston Langwell. Photo by lauragrafie.
To all the women in the United States, I am sorry! I stand with you and am furious! The US supreme court took gender equality back 100 years with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. I wholly believe this attack on abortion – on the woman’s choice – is an attack on body autonomy and gender equality. By overturning Roe v. Wade the US has went 50+ years into the past in our progress. We shouldn’t be fighting this fight over a woman’s choice over what she can do with her body, we need to be pushing the agenda of body equality and getting rid of censorship, for men and women both. But seriously free the tatas already! Due to censorship the stigma is created that taboorises the human body that manifest problems and disorders starting at a young age. We as a society in a whole do not teach body acceptance and body equality so this has contributed in raises in eating disorders, body displacement or identity disorders, to worsening pornography addiction starting younger and younger. Instead of educating and loving our beautiful bodies we chastise, hide, and scorn them. This cycle has to stop. Because we are being trained very young to hate and reject our bodies the US has the highest % of divorces anywhere. If you can’t truly love and accept yourself now do you think you can take another person who has the same predisposition as you and love them like they need?
To take this further along the lines of poor American education/socialization. America as in the US, has the highest % of abortions and teen pregnancies that also result in abortion. In my opinion I contribute this to 2 major factors (and prolly more factors) but mainly like I have already explained: body defamation, treating our bodies like they are less than. And 2nd a lack of proper sex education for our youth due to by law an inability to consent until the age of 18. we allow minors at 15 to learn and permit them to drive a weapon of mass destruction and at 16 give them the go ahead to take these weapons of mass destruction anywhere their heart desires. But they are not technically allowed to by law decide what they wanna do with their bodies. Add all this up with a piss poor education on what they should be doing or at least the proper ways to do what as history as countless times proven will always be done; you have a recipe for disaster or at least extremely high rates of teen pregnancy. This inability to consent is also dueling a major rise in the prison population. More to write on this in another article.
Since I’m already on my soup box let me briefly talk about our drinking age and how it has led to the highest rates of DUI + deaths from drunk drivers. In the world. Why is this do you wonder? Well 21… really? By then we are wound up soo fight we are bound to jump off the deep end. Or we have been drinking from very young with no supervision or proper consumption education because the generation was the rubber band that broke under the tension and had no give a shit to pass down to their youth. Also lets be real DUI helps fuel the prison system; hence why we have the insane “war on drugs”.
I know I have gotten off track. But have I? Until the united states wakes up and truly makes everyone equal, and stops pitting genders, races and the like against one another we will always be shackled to one institution or another. Stuck in an endless loop of death destruction, subjugation and despair. It’s time to unhook people we need to ascend.
Raise our vibrations and love one another and ourselves. That is my message to you!
Thank you to everyone who has taken the tie to read this. May it have opened your eyes to the despair my country faces. Until next time. Know I am sending you love and healing energy.