the entire usamerican culture has been so thoroughly shaped by the christian belief that suffering is holy and that women should suffer as penance for eve eating the apple. literally everywhere you look, female suffering is an expectation. you’re supposed to suffer through unwanted pregnancy and childbirth, motherhood is supposed to be suffering, periods are supposed to be suffering, fucking gynecological procedures are supposed to be suffering.
men (and so many women with internalized misogyny) have no empathy for the suffering of women. and there are ways that suffering could be alleviated! but women are regularly denied pain relief because our pain is a punishment for daring to be born a woman. men love to see women suffer because “they signed up for this” or “they should have known better” but that’s all a thin fucking veil over the sadistic christian culture that dominates this country. there is no virtue in suffering and women do not owe it to you to suffer!!!




















