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I, a Lesser Vessel, Am Embracing My Masculine Energy

Here’s how a woman can balance her masculine side.

Taru Anniina Liikanen
4 min readOct 29, 2022
Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.

So, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert made the news this week again for something stupid.

You know her. She’s kind of cute-looking in a very pumpkin spice latte way, but also gun-crazy and…just overall crazy, in the QAnon way. What a winning combination!

An influencer, but with a side of conspiracy.

The perfect girl next door type, if your girl next door was the tool of a fascist movement. Which she probably is, because these people are spreading faster and wider than K-pop bands.

Anyway, Boebert was in the news for using some pretty old-fashioned, Christian and sexist terms to describe a women’s role in society.

“We are created equal, we’re not the same,” Boebert told a right-wing comic in an interview. “Women are the lesser vessel and we need masculinity in our lives to balance that, that so-called weakness.”

I love that she really tried to tone it down by adding the “so-called” in there. And after some backlash, Boebert did try to walk back some of her comments.

But the message she’s spreading is clear. It’s everywhere, being spread by the fascist international movement. We need to return to

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Taru Anniina Liikanen
Taru Anniina Liikanen

Written by Taru Anniina Liikanen

Stand-up comedian and recovering political ghostwriter. Finnish by birth, porteña at heart. Bad jokes frequent.

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