I'm feeling emotional and incredibly lucky. I'm doing something women were banned from doing just a few generation ago. There's not a single female predecesor in my family who owned a house of her own. I'm the first one to do this.

A woman had to marry a m*n in order to just live in a house, and even then she was not in charge of how things are done. This was the forbidden power, to own land and a shelter and to shape it to your own desires. They didn't want us to have this.

If women could have owned houses like this, there would be far less need to marry or interact with m*n; you could just go to your house insted. The threat of poverty and starvation is also way less if there's land you can grow in; there's actions you can take at every moment to keep yourself taken care of, and none of them involve catering to any kind of male. When you're not dependent on them for survival, it also becomes way more obvious how much of a pest they are, and how much you don't want one loitering in your house.

Even now when it's all legal and allowed, I don't think I know another woman who's done this on her own. Women I know who purchased houses, did so with their spouses, with an intention to start a family. Other women just moved to properties owned by their parents, with spouses or without, or kept living in their family homes. Which is fine, of course! But they never got to experience this feeling of being absolutely in charge. An entire area under your sole control. You decide who walks in and who doesn't. Nobody to report to, zero need to explain yourself.

In this world, lesbians are silenced. We never hear about our experience, see it talked about or represented. Everything you have to say about what it's like to be a lesbian matters. And it's incredibly meaningful for the young lesbians reading it or listening to it.

"Actually women should be putting the seat back up when they're done peeing as a courtesy so that I don't have to touch it and put the seat up before I pee"

in past generations, virtually every woman was relegated to wife (slave) and mother (the most thankless job in the world) by 25

we’re going to be the first generation of women who can genuinely dedicate our lives to hobbies, travel, intellectual pursuits, meaningful careers, skill building, cultural immersion, fitness, volunteering and female friendships

it’s beautiful — imagine just how much women will be able to accomplish now that we can live life for ourselves, unburdened by marriage, motherhood and a patriarch in our homes controlling us or exploiting us domestically/sexually/mentally/emotionally