Nicholas, you are a gem among men.

Oct 21, 2018·1 min read

Nicholas, you are a gem among men. Thank you for writing this. I grew up in an academic household and never saw the existence of a glass ceiling until I moved out of state for graduate school and was abruptly shown how all areas of this culture and country are not the same. Your daughters are adorable, by the way!

Erika Burkhalter

Photographer, yogi, cat-mom, lover of travel and nature, spreading amazement for Mother Earth, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MA Yoga, MS Neuropsychology)

Look, we need not deny our biological differences or imperatives or even dismiss or repress our sexual attractions or aesthetic appreciation of the human form. We are all free to find each other beautiful, seek sexual fulfillment, express our sexuality, and expose as many body parts as we are comfortable with. But I refuse to live in a country where my daughters are expected to act and look a certain way because they are girls, an intellectually and spiritually crippled society in which they are not allowed to express themselves freely without being judged, not on the merits of their abilities, behaviors and character, but rather because they are not men. I refuse to live in a country where my daughters can’t feed my grandchildren as nature intended ANYWHERE they damn well choose.

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