Man Is Nature's Sole Mistake

Man Is Nature's Sole Mistake


The title of this post are the words that were on a sign being carried by a woman dressed in Victorian clothing today. She was holding it high as the leader of the feminist marching party was shouting pro-female lines mixed with negative male ones.

I was caught off guard by the sign and I quickly felt my temper rise and my body feel hot. I was angry with her and the group. I wanted to speak out against it, but I did not. I rushed back to work with the shopping in my hands.

I can't quite been down why I grew angry so quick, though I have ideas. I think that it caused a stir within me because someone was discriminating against me and my existence; someone was calling me and my gender a mistake. I also think I found her argument disagreeable and ill-presented. If something is nature's how can it be a mistake? Is that not the definition of nature? The lack of mistakes, the, for lack of a different word, natural.

Something hurt. Something got to me. I would never hold a sign saying "Something about you/you are nature's sole mistake!" So, please, do not hold a sign against me in that way.