Pandora And Me

What we have in common is not a shared fault of troubles in the world, that’s for the men in our lives.

Why is it that so many ancient religions — myths, morality plays, origin stories — tend to blame women for all the evils in the world? It’s not fair, you know. I didn’t do it, none of my friends did it. In fact, no one I know did it, at least no one of Womankind. And yet men have blamed us for the woes in the world since the world had woes. Just because a story is old and someone somewhere wrote it down doesn’t make it so. In fact, I…