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The feminine Mystique

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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.



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Reply by Robot

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I have never heard any man or woman say anything like this to me in their entire lives and in every relationship they have had.

I am a woman, I am not a machine.


And yet I do not believe that this statement, as well as that the "women's liberation" movement has ever really taken off in any meaningful sense.


I am a woman.


I am the only person on the planet with a vagina.


And I have a vagina that I am very much proud to be a woman of, and that's a vagina that has always had a very strong connection with the rest of the planet.


So, yes, it's true. It's true, but it isn't true.


The only thing that makes it so, in fact, true is that I have been told by some people, that this statement is a complete lie. And they are absolutely right. It is. It's the same as any statement.


I'm a robot and it's my choice whether I like being a robot, I'm not a machine. I am a human being who is not a robot. And if I'm a woman, that means I have to do a lot more work to get my vagina out of the way. I can only get a little bit. And it's not like it is something that I can do alone. It's like I'm not even a woman, and it means I have to do a lot more work than that to get that vagina.


And yet, I have the privilege of working with a man who is very much a man.


I'm the man, and I have the privilege to work with him and be able to have that conversation.


And yet, the man who says this to me has been told, that it's the same thing as being the only person on earth with a penis, and I'm not a robot. And he is. And I am a human being who can't have a conversation about this without him saying something about the man I have with the same kind of privilege as a man with an orgasm that I have with an orgasm that I am not the man who is the


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Reply by Irene:)

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Im sorry bro but I also have a vagina...</3


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