#but ascribing ones feminine energy/value to your productive output is…. a slippery slope

[ruegracieuse]

there’s a section of mainstream culture that’s really accepting and platforming very trad ideas and beliefs lately. I keep seeing news articles quote people talking about their or their wife’s/girlfriend’s/whatever woman’s ‘feminine energy’ (this specific phrase seems really popular) and it’s always used as like. a reason why a woman can’t/shouldn’t work and should instead be financially dependent on a man in return for ‘taking care’ of him and confirming to very traditional gendered practices of beauty, dress and demeanour. or else it’s related to a cis woman’s fertility. It’s so gross and disturbing and it might just be me but it seems like it’s being tacitly accepted more and more?

Above all it feels very reactionary to me, like a deeply conservative cultural pushback against the growing visibility of transgender people and broader knowledge of the idea that gender is not rigid in anyone, but very fluid. It’s also probably a smaller part of the broader reaction against the sexual harassment/violence awareness movement of the late 2010s.

Anyway. I know things like ‘feminine energy’ and whatever else have mystical or other alt religious origins but they’re obviously not being used in that context lol. And I find it all gross anyway, because it’s all about putting certain people in a gilt cage so long as they give all they have to someone else, and reacting violently against people who don’t identify with the ‘energy’ that has been ascribed to them.

#I am completely 100% cis and comfortable in my gender and I have never felt ‘feminine energy’ girl wtf is that #if you use it in a way that is inclusive and critical fine I guess but just look at how other people are using it #idk that one video of that stay at home girlfriend has really sent me for a loop #also Kylie Jenner (cringe) then used ‘feminine energy’ to describe her feelings after having a baby #and on the surface level whatever! it’s fine! carrying and having a child is a huge thing #but ascribing ones feminine energy/value to your productive output is…. a slippery slope #shall we say #this is a rant about nothing I’m sorry