I've sat through church services or conferences or workplaces or public arenas where the only women who are visible are the ones who are extremely thin, who are white, who are blonde, who are American, who are fashionably dressed and professionally done - up, who are able - bodied, who are bright without being intimidating, who are pretty without being sexy, who are unthreatening to our
status quo
of appropriate, who are ticking every box for what our culture tells us is acceptable about
womanhood.