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BLESSED WITH ESTROGEN:
Gaining, Regaining and Maintaining Female Self-Esteem
To be female is a wondrous thing. In fact, whenever I
want to upset a misogynist (male or female) who
delights in engaging in an inerited 'put down' of women, I
inform the sicko that science has proved that, at conception
before gender specialization, all huemans are
female!
I have, at successive levels of psychological growth in
my peripatetic life, gradually become only too aware of the
enormous, unfair burden most societies continuously bestow
on the backs of individuals born with more estrogen than
testosterone.
This 'Adam vs Eve' burden is maintained throughout the
lives of females and in the - unlikely - event that one who
is female recognizes the full import of
the inherited gender discrimination (which outrageously has
her earning the automatic 'less than he' salary)
hamstringing frustration at the widespread hormonal inequity
can cause her not only to think submissively but to
act submissively her whole life merely on the basis
of being born on the distaff side of her family!
There is a remedy for this pandemic iniquitous,
counterproductive societal marginalization: from
birth teach your daughter that she is special; show
her that she controls her own thought processes;
instill in her from early on that she is part of the
majority population in this male-dominated world and that
the domination springs from a serious maleducation of the
masses and doesn't necessarily have to last forever.
Ready For The Revolution?
Teach her asap that backward-ass habits can be changed
and just because 'it's traditional,' doesn't mean tradition
can't be reversed and lame excuses for it can't be refuted.
Demonstrate to her that such change must be undertaken to
"subvert the dominant paradigm" which - among other
injustices - even has most media photographs of married
couples (men and women) giving his name but
describing her as "his wife" - without
according her a name of her own - "Mrs. John Doe," as though
she's merely an appendage undeserving of individual
recognition/ acknowledgement.
In fact, as I in late life came to an understanding of
the complete and continuing subjugation of girls/women, I
realized that I had swallowed wholesale the - questionable -
desireability of giving up my own birth name and taken on
the name of my husband. As I've struggled to shake off
society's negative and misogynist condtioning I've realized
how complex a matter it is to 'take back' my 'maiden' name
and shuck my married one! Major battle.
So teach your daughter that not only is she 'as good' as
any other hueman, but she has every inherent right to call
herself-and be called by- her at-birth name; she also has
the right to choose any name she prefers!
All females should be taught that they weren't
brought into this world for anyone
to damage their skin, beat them or sexually or
psychologically abuse them. Each should be taught martial
arts to protect themselves; they - and no one else - are
responsible for their own eggs; that they would not bleed
every month if they went onto raw foods (menstruation is NOT
'a natural state' for females!) and that if they love
themselves, they'll be lovable, attractive and won't become
prey for some goodlooking predator. They should learn the
song which says "You don't own me!"
Before anyone calls me a 'bra-burning, strident,
women's-libber,' let me state unequivocally that I am not a
'feminist,' I am a 'peopleist' - I truly believe,
irrespective of what one's major hormonal make-up is, that
we all should be treated by the content of our character and
not by the happenstance of our gender. I believe in the
equality of huemans and so strongly abjure
the status quo of society's knee-jerk deference to
testicular dominance.
And nothing is more illustrative of that
arrogant male dominance than the spectre of a mostly all-(male)white
U.S.A. Congress attempting to dictate to females what we
should do with our bodies. Even discussing
abortion is patently a big fat red herring; they would
never ever even discuss legislation
forbidding males to have vasectomies or force
them to have children they didn't want!
In that vein, teach your daughter to support a
revolutionary revision of the world's education systems -
once and for all purging them of their preferential
'for-the-masculine' presentations of history and of current
events. In fact, teach her that such a revision is
necessary to accord equity for females in every
arena of people activity: economics, education,
entertainment, labor, law, religion, politics, sex and war.
For this to happen, of course, means that every female
will have to be formally taught that the development of a
healthy self-esteem as a female on this
male-dominant planet is crucial to her well-being
and to that of society in general. ROCK-(ETTE)ON! |
