Henley's Spontaneous Opinions

  Some  men have a uterus. Some women don’t have a uterus. Some people aren’t a man or a woman and have a uterus. It’s hard to watch all my friends call this an attack on women.  It’s not.  It’s an attack from the patriarchy on all marginalized communities, like always. Oppression intersects.  Maybe this is the first time it’s directly affected you, a woman. But all of the acts of oppression in the past have affected you indirectly. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, and you feel offended by what I’m saying, it might be time to do some reading. Education is a very strong tool. We need to make damn sure no one from one marginalized group is fighting with someone from another, ever again. We need to link arms and stand up to the patriarchy and PUSH BACK.  We’ve been STILL living by the rules written by a bunch of white men in 1776 that were specifically designed to let them maintain their power.  This is 2022. I want to see less cis men in charg...

(Trigger warning for trans friends, there’s derogatory use of terms our community has been trying to reclaim.) I’ve seen a lot about trans people using bathrooms.. AGAIN. I’ve seen people complaining about the need for gender neutral bathrooms.. AGAIN. My question is, are these people ever taking a second to put themselves in the shoes of the trans person who needs a bathroom? Relieving your bladder behind a closed door is a basic human right isn’t it? Are we not human? Do we not deserve to evacuate behind a closed door? There are trans people who do not “pass” as their gender (for whatever reason, and the reason is their own business). There are non- binary people who do not “pass” as a gender and never will. There are Intersex people who were born with traits of both male and female. The fact is, you can’t know what someone’s sex is without looking at their genitals, which is absolutely non of your business. No one is going into bathrooms targeting cis people, trans people ARE the ta...