On The Tragedy of Bitter and Angry Women

My friend is a self acclaimed man-hater and angry feminist. Unapologetically. Sometimes I get weary of how much she pushes it, other times I am simply jealous. Today, waking up to another news of femicide, I have decided that I am more jealous of her fire than I am weary of it.

When the world tries to force you into a place of submission, a place that is less than fit for your wild, beautiful and bold spirit, it takes fire to fight back. It takes fire to push your way to where you belong - a seat of respect, unconditional love, and sometimes just human regard.

My friend, I, so many women around the world are bitter. Grit has been forced into our mouths. Pain, shame, fear, disrespect... has been forced into our mouths.

For those women that cannot find the fire to fight back, they become victims of a full life stolen and oppressed. They forget how to spit it all out.

How can you live with questions holding you bound? "Would it be okay for me to call him out on this? Would it cause issues? I don't want to come of as disrespectful because I make more money than he does." But because love is a tricky thing, love demands that you give wholely. Love blinds you from seeing that you are not receiving in return. Because of that, we lose that fire. And my friend tried to fall in love once. No matter how much fire burns in you there is still room for love. There is still hope that yours could be different, you would give fully and receive fully. It did not work out.

I realized at a really young age that most men do not know how to give love back the way they are given. They are never taught and they are never willing to learn.

I read somewhere that women in authoritative positions are often thought of as bossy or mean but men in the same positions are regarded as simply bosses despite the fact that they exercise the authority in the same way.

The balance of the world is crooked and so many people have refused to admit it or acknowledge it. Women are bitter not because a tragedy like a partner of three years stabbing you to death happens. We know tragedies happen all the time. We are bitter because these kinds of tragedies should never happen in the first place. They are human, premeditated acts and they happen far to often.

Every 11 minutes a woman dies from femicide. These are not tragedies caused by nature like a hurricane or volcanic eruptions. These are not tragedies caused by failed inventions like plane crashes or car accidents. A man holds a knife, approaches a woman he has been dating for years and he stabs her. He stabs her several times. Or he rapes her. He forgets he once professed loved to her because in almost every mans subconscious is the slight or audacious belief that women are less than men. Women can be treated with less dignity than men.

Another story talks about a self-made wealthy woman coming out in public to say she still washes her partners underwear despise her wealth. I do not think there is anything wrong with that, but that was an open acclamation to the world that she knew "her place." That submitting to her husband is proof of her being a good woman. Women who do not have the fire to fight back end up settling. There is such a huge tragedy in that: succumbing to the belief that you are less.

Women are not bitter because of a tragedy, we are bitter because after all these years of fighting for equal rights, almost every month in 2023 there has been a new trend of femicide. Women are not bitter or angry because of a tragedy, women are bitter and angry because the next one could be a sister, a friend, me.

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