It don't feel right

I am an ovary posessing cis gendered woman experiencing an odd hiccup in my cycle now .

I feel like hot buttered death and am cramping and have diarrhea, common symptomps but my period is Late . I'm spotting but it's late.

It don't feel right.

And I am reading ( and reblogging) these birth rape articles . And besides my instinctive

" Dear person who is not the person having the experience , now commence you should with the shutting the fuck up !"

is the flip the scrip question in my head.

Why are so many big name corporate feminists so enamored of the idea of " claiming" rape for their own terms?

The link ma'ia adds here

is SUPER IMPORTANT.

Because bluntly there is no feminist gain from being at crosshairs with doctors and the medical industry

The birth rape issue makes the ability to spear head and speak for "women" right down to it's biological imperative essence and it takes the science of birth and teh study of women's bodies back to it's really nasty and slavery and class enforced begginings.

BIrth Rape is a place where money, education, privilege and power alliance don't go together as smoothly in denying the voices of others.

Rape a raison d'etre in corporate women's rights is NOT just an assault on women's safety and security and well being and her control over her ability to decide

It is an assault on the ability to be a powerful and controlling member of a ruling class.

If rape is the first for you . You are not at all disturbed by the concept of birth rape . It makes a disturbing perfect sense. This is how they ingrain your place in society. Is birth a welcome into a new world ? Your entrance into being. OR a production assembly where you learn very quickly that you by the very essence of what brought you in are more or less than?

If you believe the second then , well there is an order to the things and structures to be protected and the feelings and bodily integrity of some woman who doesn't have the good sense not to be poor or not to express herself in a way where doctors can understand her isn't enough

( Sidenote this is why you will also note the rise in designer birthing articles and services , they know this shit is real they also know that fighting the system isn't what they want . It's about assuring the system guides the CORRECT people to safety)

becuase then we would have to have discussions based on shit like FEELINGS and not the tears anger entitlement usually used to manipulate tactics commonly pushed for " feelings"

but that kind of bone deep sense of balance equilibrium and safety that

CAN NOT BE MASS MARKETED in a way that keeps these women in yoga mats.

If birth rape and birth and sexuality are very much individualized and at the essence in need of a system that respects that....

So is gender . Essentialist arguments about who gets to speak who doesn't what constitutes motherhood are proven to fall to the BODY OF THE PERSON IN QUESTION?

Erasure and segregation of women without vagina's , or people who classify along no binary aren't " things we need to work on" They're just damn wrong.

There is no standard , it just feels right or it doesn't.

There MAY be a norm but that norm is now more for healing than policing or correcting.

So is ability. A body is what it is what is and that has to be respected. No mourning no pathologizing just need for a system ( environment) that heals and provides safety. Can't fix what ain't broke

So is race . You can't decide what it is or isn't . You can't wash it away cause you're tired of it . You have to deal with those who've lived it.

Women's healthcare is often defined by a belief that we have no bloody idea what we are talking about when it comes to our own bodies. That someone else knows better

not techniques for treatment

surgical skills

diagnostic pathways

but literally what we feel and what we should feel.

And we only get to protest if we can CONVINCE THEM what we need.

Birth Rape is a great issue to establish a feminist monoculture around. One that re-enforces classism, racism ( did you know gynecology was mostly found on cutting slaves, and natives in America and the poor everywhere else?) classism , jingoism, able ism, cultural appropriation( well if you have a properly liscensed paid staff and doula you can have a native birthing pool!!!), transmisogyny( WE KNOW WHAT WOMEN'S BODIES SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO !!!)

under the guise of rationality and reconciliation and being an emissary to talk to these poor confused women who thing they should know their own bodies. It's a nice way to reassert a belief that being publicly prominent is as good as a reason to be considered expert as being ACTUALLY KNOWLEDGEABLE.

With technology and social communication consistently stripping the need for their previous roles as gatekeepers and information controllers, they now must set logical standards to keep employed. And birth rape is FAR too big to leave to the participants

Because this issue means that we would have to go immediately to two sets. Women who give birth and those who caretake.

And teh rest of us would have to support each side and let me tell you .For prominent feminist writers they are telling us flat out there is

NOTHING IN IT FOR THEM TO SUPPORT MOTHERS

It don't feel right to them so they could give a hell if it feels right to us

and it's the first step to making whatever don't feel right to us a disease