The World’s Exhausting Expectations of Women

Who the hell is it that’s making ‘the Social norms’ anyway?

Cos I think we all need to have a few words with them.

Graphic: authors own, made with stock images in/via Canva

I mean, the amount of stuff we’re expected to be and not be doesn’t make any goddamn sense. The ‘shoulds’ and ‘shouldn’ts’ are ridiculous.

(In a broad sense, I mean — I’m sure there’s stuff you actually should do, like eat and sleep and go to the loo, and stuff you shouldn’t like arson, theft, murder, voting for Donald Trump, etc.

There’s exceptions to most generalisations.)

Women, for example, get a raw effing deal.

Just looking at ads and articles aimed at women can sometimes be goddamned exhausting!

(Note:

I realise other genders have their own struggles.

And Women of Colour, disabled women, and Trans women, for example, have specific problems and social expectations to contend with.

This post is meant to be a general meandering of the kinds of things women (ALL women) have to contend with, but is obviously primarily based on my own experiences as a Cisgender Queer…