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For girls there is always a moment when the earnest, endearing assumption of equality is lost,
never had that experience
“What does it mean to be unambiguously a woman?”
As opposed to my sense of self as a "yang-ey girl"
a fear of dissension,
This fear can also exist as fear of not living up to (gender-neutral) internalized moral codes. This internal judge can be harsh and impossible to hide from.
God as female.
To women who never experienced the make as having authority she was subject to (only risibke imagined authority) rhis exercise is merely playful semantics. To us god never had a gender in tge first place. So female gods are a bit frivolous, and make gods laughable.
Connection with this inner reality is a woman’s most priceless experience.
yes!
I didn’t even know there was a feminine way of being spiritual.
I wonder by what accident of fateor privilegeI ALWAYS knew it?
they know on some level that males hold the power.
Yet some girls learn that makes only THINK they hold the power. What makes that possibke?
a deep-felt recognition of the limitation placed on women’s lives, especially her own.
This is often self-iposed in thename of love, rather than a yielding to power
parents and teachers seem to have lesser expectations for girls than for boys.
maybe my immunity to feeling feminine inferiority cones from my unle's expectations of me. where my cousin got warmth and tenderness toward her feminine self, I was both honored and burdened by high male expectations!
“dumb themselves down” and conform to lesser expectations to avoid being threatening.
And this, I learned to do in an all girls' school, hoping to earn friendship. In vain of course.
She’ll likely encounter ceilings, networks, and traditional assumptions that work against her as a woman.
An image is created of a “screaming feminist” with an ax to grind.
So rather than risk the image being attached to her, a woman will often back quickly away.
Until we look from the bottom up we have seen nothing.
I agree with that. I havent felt that as relating to gender. i have seen it relating to childhood or povert or race.
ancient mythology told us that the turtle was a feminine symbol of strength and wisdom.
It occurs to me the male / female divide must be even more annoying to transgender people than it is to me. Can't we just be human?
see women, and therefore herself, as namers of reality.
As a physician and researcher, I remember my annoyance at succesful women who imitated male ways of thinking and living. I used to rant at the missed opportunity for them to enrich the profession's understanding with their own complementary approach. And I fekt it was cowardly to imitate the established path to success rather than create our own. Of course some years later i slammed into a glass ceiling i had naively had no inkling about.
I thought how scary it must be to have a wife of nearly twenty years wake up.
I wished for a marriage where we could walk paths that allowed for the unconditional sharing of soul. Without it, marriage becomes very lonely.
Whether we have taken the path of the fathers, educating ourselves in their institutions, learning their language, seeking their goals, energizing ourselves with success in their endeavors, or supported the fathers in their path, creating their homes, birthing and rearing their children, encouraging their dreams, healing their wounds, we have most often made beauty out of our work. We rejoice in our careers and in our children. We are proud of our spouses’ achievements and our belief that helped to make those achievements happen. . . . Then one day everything is dry. Dust. Crumbled and blowing
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“Diving into the Wreck,”
Sometimes rigidity and resistance are too encrusted and the relationship cannot survive the changes going on in a woman.
need and desire to know and relate to a Power of Being
she specifies feminine while i prefer human
Another synchronicity,
synchronicity in this sense annoys me, as it depends on a greater force sending us signals. synchronicity as a psychological concept is an expression of subcobscious attunement between people and i find that much more informative .
