The Feminist

So, yea, I’m a feminist. But hear me out for a second. It’s not as bad as it sounds and it doesn’t mean that I hate men. It just means that I feel that the world needs more of the feminine voice to balance out the masculine voice.

It has a lot to do with my upbringing. Ya see, I have five brothers, 3 older and two younger. The male perspective was very strong in my family and it didn’t help that my mother and sister had both betrayed their feminine self’s and had joined in with the male voice. I can see why they did it, it’s easier, men and boys like you better when you do. But the result of not raising you’re feminine voice is that there is a lot of violence. You see, women are usually more compassionate and nurturing then men and they are usually the ones, if their voice is strong enough, that prevent harm from coming to their children by letting the men know that they need to chill out on the violent mindset. (I mean, dude, we aren’t at war)

I don’t know why I felt the need to stay true to my feminine voice but I did and I was beaten and made fun of most of my childhood life because of it. My brothers and father hated it. Any signs of emotion was interpreted as “drama” and to this day I am referred to as the “drama queen”…They all remember me as the trouble maker, the one who was always trying to take a stand for something or the other. I was a little brat because I spoke up against their mind set and had the nerve to try and insert a different one and not back down from it.

And it's no different in my adulthood. They all still see me as being a trouble maker for having feelings and expressing them. I'm sure that if I just went along with their perspectives that everything would start to be a lot easier for me.

The world is very much like my home while growing up. If women don't use their true feminine voices, if they don’t raise them and insert them into the male dominated conversations; if we don’t join together and support each other then we will never have any compassion or peace in the world. The most violent societies that exist in the world today are ones in which the female voice has been completely shut out.