Thursday, July 8, 2010

Gender - a postscript

Today was the first time I spent a day at work without my husband. And it felt AMAZING!

Not that I don't like him, not that we're not getting on well over here (remarkably, given that we've never put our relationship to the test of 24/7 contact for nearly a whole month before!). But I suddenly feel like an entity in my own right again! There are things that I alone have observed, things that I alone have contributed, a role that I have fulfilled on my own. Ahhhh.

Again, a pretty small thing, but it gives me - the blissfully ignorant product of a liberated society, who never had to fight for women's rights - the tiniest insight into what it must feel like to be a 'woman' rather than an individual or a person.

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