If you are a woman reading this, you have already submitted to a man, whether you’re aware of it or not. And the louder you deny it, the greater the likelihood that you’ve submitted to a bad man, one who abuses and uses you.

The state of woman is submissiveness, now and forever.

There is no way to escape it, short of putting a bullet into your brain. I don’t care how “strong” or “independent” you think you are, how much money you make, or how “equal” you think your relationship with your husband/boyfriend is: if you are female, you have submitted to the rule of a man. And when you think you’re rebelling against masculine authority, all you’re doing is exchanging one master for another.

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It is woman’s lot in life to be ruled by man, not because of men but because of women themselves. In the absence of immediate masculine authority, women will chain themselves to anything that promises them food on the table and a warm place to sleep. And while women may chafe at their husbands’ or fathers’ yokes, even if they break free, they just find another man to kneel to. They’re trapped in a neverending cycle of submission and rebellion, never once realizing what they’re doing.

Sorry, ladies: as loudly as you may crow about how “strong” you are, you live in a gilded cage. You get to redecorate your cage whenever you want, but you can never, ever leave, except to move to another cage.