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What is WomanI just read this article in Utne that I perosnally found to be a bit offensive, and perhaps even a touch insulting, the article was about this woman who use to be an adventurer. Hicking, Backpacking, Rock climbing etc.. that sort of thing, and she was going to the store to pick up a new therma rest which for those that are not outdoorsy and do not know, is a speccial type of enflatebale mat you sleep on, that is convient to take out backpacking, and she was talking about how they now make ones special for women, which just so happen to come in pink, and how she rested against the pink before she finally embraced it as she said, and then after that she went into this whole tirade, about how she has redicovered herself and as she put it embraced her womanhood, and how girls that go out adventuring, are just trying to keep up with the boys as she put it, and how guys do not think they are having a good time unless they are trying to make a fire Mcgyver style with a pair of shorts, ketsup, and a glow stick or untill someone is being airlifted out, and how now the list of things she once was willing to try out or wanted to do has changed, and she is now going on this trip planned with a group of women into the Mohave desert to work on thier writing skills.
That just annoyed me so much, first of all not every woman who likes to go adventuring, is just trying to keep up with the guys as she put it. I have alwyas loved hiking and camping, and outdoors activity, becasue I am a born nature bart to the very core, but I am not doing, and I do not like to do it, just becasue I think I have anything to prove to the guys, I am long past those days. It is true, I once was a hardcore tomboy who rebelled against all things woman, I dressed like a guy, and acted like a guy, and tried to out do guys in anything that was considered a "guy activity" I thought that wearing dresses and skirts were a sign of weakness, and that getting envolved in men in a relationship was more a woman's submission to men. I was like a dyke but with long hair and not really intrested in being envolved with women. A natiz femmenist, though I did not turly hate men, in fact usually I prefered them becasue other women just seemed so sterotypical to me that I could not relate to them and they just annoyed me.
But sense I have leanred to embrace my womanhood and it is with the help of the Goddess I connected to my feminity, now I ware skirts and dresses with pride and confidance, and I am empwered not weakend by it, and I am very deeply in love with a man and cannot wait untill we can seriously start a futute togehter.
But I have not embraced pink and I have not given up my rough and tumble ways, and I do not get together with other women to gush over my feelings, still most my firends are guys, and I still relate to guys better then to women, and I still like to get down and dirty and brush and scar myself up from time to time, and I am not doing it to try and keep up with anyone or to prove anything to anyone.
I do not think this makes me any less of a woman, rather I think I have found a rather happy meuduim between my old ways, and from becomming a pink loving, mall shoping, over emotional girly girl. But I still completely embrace my femeinenty. 11:18 AM - 8/2/2007 - post comment
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