Since my last article apologized for my absence here on Curiata.com, I’m not going to waste time saying sorry for my lack of articles over the past few weeks. I’ll just say: I’m back!

This week, I’d like to talk about the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case decided last week by the Supreme Court of the United States. I know, you’ve probably already read a thousand articles expressing rage and disbelief over the Supreme Court decision. For anyone who has been living under a rock (or has been working such an insane amount of hours that you don’t even know what day it is), the Supreme Court ruled that closely held corporations (i.e., Hobby Lobby) are allowed to refuse insurance coverage for specific types of birth control due to their religious beliefs.

*cue the outraged cry of the feminists*

I have so many problems with this ruling, I don’t even know where to begin. First and foremost, it singles out one specific type of medical treatment. The Court even said that this ruling could not be used as a basis for refusing coverage for blood transfusions or vaccinations. It’s mighty convenient that we are basically invalidating some religious beliefs while catering to others.

Secondly, the Supreme Court ruling, either intentionally or not, put the values and ideals of a corporation above that of an actual person.

Third and finally, the ruling continues to muddy the waters between birth control and abortion, a line that science has clearly drawn.

In the week following this ground-breaking decision, I had a chance to talk to a lot of my friends and colleagues about the ruling. Not surprisingly, I found that most people were outraged and were planning boycotts of Hobby Lobby. I even heard this sentiment from my self-proclaimed conservative friends. What is surprising is that, while everyone else was outraged, I found myself quite ambivalent about it.

Day after day, week after week, I think about the social injustice that just comes with the territory of being a woman. There are days when I come home, seeing red, because of some insensitive, sexist thing that some dude felt he needed to say to me. I’ve been sexually harassed. I’ve been told, point blank, that I have no idea what I’m doing because I’m a woman.

This may sound a wee bit jaded, but I was truly expecting the Hobby Lobby decision. I’m not surprised by it all. If I look at the way women are treated every day by the majority of men, it’s not surprising to me that a court dominated by old men made the “un-feminist” decision.

Now, before you all start slamming me with that #NotAllMen crap, I realize that not all men feel this way. But the truth is that, oftentimes, the men who claim to be feminist and supportive of these things are a rarity. I choose to surround myself with the type of men who are comfortable being called a feminist, so I often forget they are the exception, not the rule.

Until we live in a world where men don’t automatically assume I’m the secretary, or one where I don’t get cat-called to for wearing a skirt, or one where I can wield tools and not be told I have no clue what I am doing, I am not going to expect the men on the Supreme Court to prioritize our needs over those of a “closely held corporation.”