I'm a Heartless Bitch because my mom, who is one tough broad herself,
taught my sister and me when we were growing up that there is nothing we
can't accomplish if we really try. Mom is a genteel, soft-spoken, polite
Southern belle of 55 who raised me to speak softly and carry a REALLY big
stick. She is typically Southern in that she will be polite to you until
she is ready to kill you, but the woman can change a tire, clean a fish
and shoot a gun... by God, she can take care of herself. I think it's
what attracted my dad to her in the first place.
So when I got out into the world, I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to
be able to do the things I was doing, and it pissed me off when someone
tried to tell me I couldn't do something because I'm a woman. What do they know?
I worked as a senior crew chief and driver at the pizza delivery joint
for four years when I was putting myself through college. (It really
irritated my Neanderthal manager that I was the best driver on staff,
too. Heh heh heh.) I've worked in an otherwise exclusively male Air
Force avionics maintenance shop since 1994, and was awarded Airman of the Year
for the entire Reserve wing at Barksdale Air Force Base in 1995.
Currently I work in the IT industry as a Unix geek, which is almost overwhelmingly male.
All my life I've accomplished everything the rest of the world told me I
couldn't do. In the process, I got fed up to the gills with seeing my
women friends hook up with assholes who abused them, and my guy friends
kowtow to manipulative, insecure chicks who treated them like garbage.
These people didn't have the balls to stand up for themselves and assert
their rights as human beings, and I am sick unto death of friends who
whinge to me about their sorry lives, as if they didn't have the
choice of being a victim. Get a grip, girlfriend!
If having a spine and refusing to bow to the pressure to conform makes
me a bitch, then dammit, I'm proud to be one. It's been a long road
getting here, but I like who I am. I'm comfortable with my body,
my sexuality (bisexual), my relationships, my career and the fact that
I'm never really going to fit in anywhere. I like being strong and independent.
It's a hell of a lot better than living someone else's life.
Yes! I want to read more from Real Life Heartless Bitches
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