What a Truly Empowered Feminine Should Mean.

For me, the underlying issue continues beyond even the freedom of women to not have to hide their natural desire for touch, intimacy, and sex, the lack of which undermines the ability of any woman, to be self-authentic and self-caring. And of course, this also encompasses those who do not want to have those things, especially when they are violent intrusions.

I see that the theme of a truly empowered feminine would necessitate a rethinking of the meaning of *power* and how it could be exercised in authentically feminine ways in our culture, rather than how it is mostly done nowadays, where women get to act, when they are allowed the right to, in the same way as men. Masculine dominated cultures are still limiting how women can act, because we have done nothing to restructure our societies so that women, and not ‘analog men’, can exercise their power in authentic ways.

I remember reading about the Iroquois Confederacy, perhaps the oldest democracy. In it, only men could hold office and vote, but only women could choose the candidates. It’s that last bit, that took my breath away, because it harnesses feminine wisdom in a truly powerful way. It wasn’t necessarily ‘equal’ in our modern sense. It was something much more fruitful.

And hopefully, when I say “feminine way” you will understand that I am not using it in a typical condescending fashion. The image of modern councils of women, like the grandmothers of earlier indigenous nations, exercising their spiritual, caring, sensuous, feminine wisdom as a true power within society, in my mind, is the most forbidden fruit today, and the only change that will save us from our head-long dash to utter calamity is to unleash it.

I read a book recently, that reset completely what I understand a human culture to be. It's called "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow. Yes, it's two men, but every page of that book was eye-opening in the sense of lifting the veil of masculine bullshit from my eyes, as well as the myth of 'civilization,' the reality of the unimportance of the development of modern agriculture for human welfare/developement -- except to benefit centralized power over populations of locked-in-place humans, the utter blinders that scientists have over their eyes so that they cannot even see what they are looking at (evidence of the important role of women) without recasting it as some male-centric bullshit. I highly, highly, recommend it.

There is another book too, that I would like to share (and I should mention that both of these books make their points with varying degrees of humor). It's called "Bitch - A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution, & the female animal" by Lucy Cooke. (it is on audible, narrated by the author!), If you want to see just how profoundly fucked up the human animal has become in relation to sex, this is the humorous scientific look at the subject.

I honor your inner clarity Jenny.