Waiting. And Waiting.

We're getting sick of waiting for the damn FDA to put their politics aside to help women. At least I am. While they're writing thier hands, delaying action, playing their political scenarios over and over in their heads - women are suffering. When will they make us stop waiting?

They make us wait for a decision to get Plan B over the counter. They make us wait 48 hours to get an abortion. "Sit tight" - they say, thinking they'll calm us down. They tell us to wait until we're married to have sex. If we do have sex, we're supposed to wait until he's ready to climax so we can do it together. We're supposed to wait to have families if we want careers - or wait to have careers if we want families. The clock keeps ticking. It'll only be a little longer until we are paid equally - until we have as many CEOs, or Senators, or Supreme Court judges. To the little girl who's anxious and ambitious people say, "hold your horses." She's supposed to wait a little longer, give everyone else the head start she knows she deserves. Wait a little longer, well, we're tired of waiting. We've been waiting too long and the results have been too shitty and we don't want to wait - don't need to wait. We can take what we want, what we deserve. We will not wait anymore. I will not wait anymore. I will not live my life by someone else's clock. Good things do not come to those who will wait - good things are coming to those who are making us wait - who think they can keep us sitting, twidling our thumbs - waiting for some benevolant man to give us the surprise we've been waiting for. They hope they'll keep us waiting for long enough - that we'll forget what it is we're waiting for.