Gender as an Economic Form of Oppression

It has recently occurred to me that my gender has added to the species of economic crises I have endured.

My working class roots (my father worked in landscaping his entire life, solidly blue collar) made something like waxing my body hair seem unnatural and completely out of reach financially.

The horizon of my university education — which included Oberlin feminists — also made something like hairless legs correctly seem like an oppressive patriarchal archaism.

Flash to the current day: the thing is though, in France, even French “feminists” will say to your face that what distinguishes men from women is body hair, face hair, pubic hair. That basically, if you have some blonde fuzz on your upper lip, peach wisps on your navel, hair on your butt or legs or god forbid around your VAGINA, gasp, then you’re not actually a woman.

Guess what assholes? By your standards I have never been able to afford it. That doesn’t change my biology though. It just means that gender is just one more form of economic oppression.