The feminine should absolutely never be used in the
pejorative. We have to stop teaching not only our girls, but everyone, that
“acting like a girl” is in no way weak. The strongest bond a creature can make
is through love, which requires vulnerability, which inherently makes the
vulnerable strong.
It is never okay to say that someone is acting like a wimp,
wuss, sissy, pussy, bitch, faggot, pansy or pantywaist. It is never okay to say
someone throws like a girl or fights like a little bitch. Every time you
“innocently” say something like this, you create that space, that life in the
universe where a woman is rendered a second-class citizen. It reinforces the
stereotype that men do things the “right” way and that to be feminine is to
somehow fail.
Don’t dare to call yourself a feminist or a champion of
women out of one side of your mouth and then talk about how Lady Gaga isn’t
that pretty or that Miley Cyrus is not that great at twerking out of the other
side. So much attention has been paid at how to cut women down to size at every
turn. We have to take responsibility for creating a new place where a woman is
still celebrated without having to have perfectly symmetrical features or
perfect muscle isolation in her glutes. We don’t have to feel threatened by the
beauty or success of our fellow sisters because man and machine have
thoughtfully sought to program us this way.
Did you know that if you give money to a man in an
impoverished nation that he is entirely likely to abandon his family; take the
money and leave? If you give the same sum to the woman of the house, she will
start a sustainable business and support everyone. Forever.
We don’t need your “Ladies’ Nights” or to be otherwise
rewarded for our perky tits. We just need to make the same money for the same
work as a man and we’ll buy our own drinks at the bar. We don’t need anymore
“lady doctors” or “male nurses” or reinforcements of any kind for the stringent
gender roles that are constantly marketed as a one size fits all.
Being a woman is the most amazing, wonderful gift. I am
grateful for it everyday. Vive la femme!
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