La Mujer Loca

Chapter 3

Since I was a child, the world taught me one thing a hereditary lesson, an immutable law.

I am a supporting role. A background character in the epic of man.

I was synthesized to support, not to catalyze.

I was instructed to be sweet, but not conspicuous.

To be intelligent,but never exceeding the male threshold.

To be independent,but never triggering their fragile equilibrium.

Boys are cultured with 'Be a leader. Be a hero.'

While girls? 'Be a vessel for support. Be a subservient consort.'

And you know what? No matter how high I elevate my titer, the world still fixates on the vector

'Whose husband is she?'

'When is the union scheduled?'

'Why is there no progeny?'

When I succeed, they ignore the labor of my training and hunt for the 'patron' in the background. When I manifest an opinion, they label it as 'agitation.' When I remain silent, they diagnose me as 'ignorant.'

A strong woman is categorized as a pathogen, a brave one is 'unrefined' an ambitious one is 'deviating from her nature.'

'Her nature is in the domestic petri dish.'

'You’ll be non-viable in the marriage market if you remain this recalcitrant.'

'What man would cultivate a woman like you?'

It is statistically laughable. They claim love is unconditional, yet in practice, a woman must satisfy a battery of criteria just to be deemed valid.

I am exhausted from being a sidekick in a patriarchal narrative.

'I have always been a supporting character in a man's plot. My function? To stabilize the prince so he may ascend to kingship. But who was here to crown me? Not a single soul!'

'You wrote me with the ink you possess. I am finished being a character in your regressive novel.'

Even when I began to catalyze my own synthesis, they displayed a panic response. They fear narratives beyond their control. Understand this: I am not a bio-specimen to be cultured to your specifications. I am not a property being transferred from father to husband. I am weary of being the symbol of 'gentleness' sacrificed to sustain your fragile masculinity.

I’m not the supporting character in your legacy. I’m not the footnote in your epic. I’m not here to make your crown shine brighter.

I am the plot.

" I don’t want a happy ending. I want my own plot twist."