“Your choices don’t exist in a vacuum.” were your EXACT WORDS. Literally what you said. Do I need to screenshot your own post and send it back to you? Because I can do that. In fact, I will.



^ See? That’s you. Literally saying that I do not have a choice.



But, anyway! I’m far from a “handmaiden.” If anyone would be little more than household help, it’s you. Constantly squawking and shrieking and pissing about how “OH MY GOD THE PATRIARCHY!*” is the reason for your shitty life decisions coming back and slapping you in the face or why so-and-so probably turned you down (even though it’s because you’re a literal rabid Harpy).

* a system that literally does not exist in the context you try to paint it as.

Honey, I’m far from oppressed. My husband treats me like a queen. If you knew how to treat people with respect, that could happen for you too. I literally chose the life I have right now. I am treated with more respect, more integrity, more patience, and more kindness than I have ever experienced from anyone in my life, and if that’s how “The Evil Patriarchy” treats women who choose to be homemakers and focus on their children, then by god why would I even try to go out of my way to choose anything else? Literally anything I could ask for, I get. If not in that instance, then as soon as he can make it happen. His life revolves around me and our kids. He doesn’t rule over us like some dignitary. We work as a team, and he asks me for the approval of things, just as I ask him.

To touch back onto the “Patriarchial Handmaiden” thing, hilariously enough, every time you say “critical thinking” all I hear is “think like we do” as though the notion that someone’s self-reflection, hours upon hours of research, and distancing of self from Hivemind is a bad thing. Is your idea of “Critical Thinking,” perhaps, really intended to be “subjugate yourself to my toxic views”? Because I’d rather not be a mindless drone again. I’m an adult, and I have better things to do than shriek about the ghost of an oppressor that doesn’t exist.