Because this is how I feel, every day, in every way. Please - well-intentioned, willing-to-listen (please goddess I hope) men in my life - listen to this. Read these words and put aside, for just a moment, righteous indignation and please hear what the writer of these words, and via her, so many other women, are trying to say.
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/08/terrible-bargain-we-have-regretfully.html Awesome piece, seriously. And I could not have worded it better.