Saturday Reads

Out of curiosity I had to look up this statistic on first age of marriage for women in the United States.  While the median--meaning half before, and half later--is the highest it has been at 27,  it is still ridiculously young.  It is just a recipe for disaster.

The youngest age states are those with a bunch of Mormons, where it is almost a requirement people marry and marry young, and those with a high percentage of religious right types, as in the South.  The oldest ages tend to be those in the northeastern part of the U.S., where more women are educated beyond high school.
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Sounds like Jordan Peterson came up with this "personality test" or whatever it is.
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The biggest bunch of bullshit ever is to tell women to "modify" their behavior so they don't get raped.

It doesn't help because the vast majority of rapes are not stranger rapes.  If you want to avoid rape, don't live with a man.

The "warnings" aren't designed to help women but to force them to be dependent on men in order to do anything.

As I wrote on Reddit:

The biggest bunch of bullshit told to women is the "man in the bushes is going to rape you" if you dare do anything on your own.

It's not only not helpful and doesn't put the responsibility where it belongs if it happens, which is on men, but statistically, the men most dangerous to women are the men they live with.

The point of the warnings anyway has nothing to do with female safety. It is a way to limit women's movement to force women to be dependent on men to do anything.

It isn't about "safety." It is fucking political.

Fuck that shit and anybody who peddles it. This shit pisses me off every time I hear it, and I have been hearing it ever since I was a young girl, and I have ignored it since my teens. I ignored my sister and my mother when they peddled this bullshit. I wasn't supposed to live by myself, I wasn't supposed to travel by myself, I wasn't supposed to run and bicycle by myself. I wasn't supposed to do one damned thing in my life except open my legs up for a blue-collar idiot and pop his kids out. I ignored them. I ignored co-workers who peddled this bullshit. I will live life on my terms, and I am glad I have gotten to do what I wanted to do.

If you want to piss me off just tell me I can't do anything on my own.
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