Not so confusing some times
to be a girl!
Hi my loves,
Sorry again for such a long gap between ‘stacks. To be honest, I’ve been sitting on this draft for a while, but my full time job now is typing on a screen for 8-10 hours a day, and idea of doing that for fun was just unfathomable to me. But, I do truly love keeping this ‘stack alive, so please bear with while the gaps between emails get a little more sporadic.
What I meant to write about three weeks ago and failed to send was just the general horrors of woman-hood! So strap in.
Three weeks ago I had to go to the hospital because my IUD — a metallic structure shoved into my body that releases hormones for 8 years into my blood stream — had gone missing.
I was in pretty gruesome pain, and feared that the device had dislodged itself and was heading for one my ovaries, which it could pierce and render me infertile.
And, just to be clear, I chose to get this implanted. This is something that actually, in the long run, makes my life a little easier, even though it comes with the side effect of mystery hormones, potential infertility, and cramps that feel, according to the internet, a lot like labor.
So, when I hear the absolute ghouls looking to take away reproductive access for women, discuss how they’re looking to make women’s lives harder, more painful, more exhausting, I of course think they’re horrific, but I also think…our lives are already pretty gross, you can calm down!
I have good news for them — they really don’t need to try so hard! No, really, the birth control they’re trying to cut off can give women strokes, make them suicidal, pierce our insides! One of my friends had an IUD that made her bleed so much she had to replace her entire blood supply.
So, honestly, these guys can chill out. If they want women to be slaves to their own reproductive organs, then great news, I missed one my last days of freedom before my job started sitting in a hospital waiting room.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather have an IUD than not be able to access the medical care that is an abortion, but all I’m trying to say is that if they took two second to speak to a women they’d realise that we’re already going through it, and they really don’t need to put in all this effort to make things worse.
Anyway…with that out of the way, here’s what’s in and our this week:
IN
Being in a 5 ft fan-base
I went to see Chappell Roan last night (!!!!!!!) and for once in my life I could actually (kind of) see the stage!! Ok, I couldnt “see” in the traditional sense, but I could see the top of her head and that’s better than most shows I’ve been to. I’m only supporting artsists with a tiny women fan base from now on. It was a dream.
OUT
Venues not having enough fans/windows
There is no reason for people to be sweating like a sauna at a concert. Please, I beg, put a fan in there, or a window, or something. Sure, I don’t understand the immense complexities of event spaces, but something must be done!!
Anyway, here’s what I’m
Watching
TV Show — The perfect couple!!!! IT’s Big Little Lies x White Lotus x New England Accents - my favourite trifecta of all time. I love it, it’s ridiculous, it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen.
Movie — Top Gun Maverick — good God this is a great movie. In 100 years time historians will believe we had the COVID-19 pandemic just so we could make this movie to “save cinema.” It is the pantheon of true film. True cinema. True greatness. Makes me proud about being American, and curious about being Scientologist.
Reading
Article — My own articles on Newsweek <3
Book — The Mothers, Brit Bennett. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to read this book. Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half is one of my favourite books of all time, but for some reason I’d never been pulled to pick up The Mothers. I truly cannot recommend it enough. The blurb makes it seem like a rom-com, but it really is not at all. It’s a complex, at times deeply frustrating but in a beautiful real-life way, multi-generational story about trust and betrayal and womanhood, that I devoured in a day.
Listening to
Music — What’s Wrong With New York, The Dare. The Dare feels, to me, like a guy who just took you on the worst date of your life, but for some reason you go back to his, and then he says “I make music” and you think “noooooo I have to get out of here” and then he plays you the music and it is actually good, and you don’t really know how to feel. Anyway, I love this album even if it may be a Stockholm Syndrome situation.
Podcast — The News Agents, Why is everyone so obsessed with Lucy Letby? It’s a good episode on why people seem fixated on this case which has been over for more than a year now.
Alrighty that’s it for this week.
Love you all! and thanks for your patience between ‘Stacks recently <3
xoxoxox
Sophie