Backhanded bitch slapped...

A few of my friends have heard this already, but I want to make one thing clear: The next person to make a fricken comment about Ryan being my husband is going to clearly get backhanded bitch slapped across the face.

I go to make an appointment with my pt for next week and there's some fat new woman at the desk. So I hand her my perscription from the doctor and she looks up my file on the computer. She looks up my file! She's staring at it. Looks at the first name, looks at me and in all seriousness says "oh, so you're making appointments for your husband."

Do I fucking look like I'm married?! And even if I was married, the dude can get up off his own ass and make his own fucking appointment. Sorry, Charlie... not in my job description! For God's sake look at my hand... Do you see a ring there? NO! Get a fricken clue people!

Yes, I have a stereotypically male name, I've come to terms with that. But people need to stop making assumptions that I'm married just based on a fricken name!

Why do I have be married? I'm 23 years old, why the hell do I have to be married? Why is that the stereotype? Isn't it plausible in this day and age to be female, 23, and still in school and not married? Isn't it plausible that I'm independent and can think for myself without the help of a man, who only has enough blood in his body to run one head at a time? I'm not in middle America, I'm not in the bible belt, and I'm not in a time period where I would have to be married by 16 or otherwise considered an old maid. Get with it people!

This is the 21st century! Women are independent, we can vote, we can run for office, we have gotten past Sufferage and now have a place to stand in society. So why are we recessing? Why does every woman have to be married with children in order to be considered truly successful? Why must we work our bodies to the bone to achieve some distorted, screwed up vision of the American Dream? Stand up women! Go out on your own, publish your own work under your own name! Put your own name up in lights, not the name of some man because you seem to think that you can't be good without him! Achieve your dreams of greatness and independence!