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impossibledoesexist333 · 2 months

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#the strength of womanhood #the ywca #the things we dont discuss #the protection of pixie dust

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reformedfaerie · 1 year

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one thing about biblical womanhood posts that I’ve noticed is that when it’s talked about, they still strive to emphasize the aspects that were remarkable situations— they leave a faint taste of feminism in my mouth because they focus on Deborah, the woman raised up to lead because the men wouldn’t; they focus on Jael, the woman who kills a man with a tent spike; a woman dropping a stone, Rahab smuggling Israelites and defying authorities—

And all of these are raised up and praised as the Biblical woman with just a hint of look!! We’re strong!! We’re in the thick of it!! We’re not submissive doormats!!

In one sense, this is true. These are great, godly women. They are our examples.

But in all our striving to remind people of biblical women’s strength, we cannot forget who else are our examples.

We cannot forget Ruth. Ruth who humbled herself and remains loyal with Naomi, submitting herself to God and trusting in His provision. Ruth who lays herself at Boaz’s feet and who sacrifices possibly being a widow soon again for the sake of Naomi’s care and God’s provision.

Martha— one who serves and who desires to serve

Mary— one who sits at Christ’s feet to learn and desires to hear the words of her Lord

Lydia— who insisted on hosting and serving the Lord’s messengers; who would be possibly sacrificing her wealth being a part of the church in Philippi and serving the church

Mary— Jesus’ mother who submitted herself to God’s will, submitted herself to the scorn of her peers, who trusted the Lord to fulfill His promises and whose soul was pierced with a sword

The strength of godly wives who submit though their flesh and curse is contrary— the strength of women who order their homes, are humble, are helpers, are mothers, are servers, are menders, are teachers, are caregivers, are sellers and makers, are students of our Lord.

Don’t confuse gentleness for weakness; nor tenderness for a lack of strength.

Women are strong.

And it’s not because of tent spikes.

#women are so much more than what people say about Deborah and Jael #I love them and their examples #but not every woman is Deborah and Jael #there is a profound strength in gentleness #g.txt #on womanhood #womanhood #biblical womanhood #biblical women #I’m gonna get ‘yeah BUT or ACTUALLY’ replies #just you watch #people are gonna get upset most likely #but #i said what i said

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araekniarchive · 1 year

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@seravph, I Think I Am Going To Cut My Hair

Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan, script by Anne Rice

Gone Girl (2014) dir. David Fincher

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008), 3x16: Sozin’s Comet

Jacqueline Wilson, Vicky Angel

Gülten Akın, ‘I Cut My Black Hair’ from What Have You Carried Over?

Laurence Price, The Famous Flower of Serving-Men (traditional English language ballad, c. 1656)

Regina Spektor, Samson

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

@seravph, I Think I Am Going To Cut My Hair

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blackswaneuroparedux · 11 months

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Ουδέν εστι θηρίον γ��ναικός αμαχώτερον.

- Aristophanes

There is no beast like woman so untamed.

#aristophanes #greek #classical #quote #tame #breaking in #femme #womanhood #horse #femininity #strength #being worthy #nature

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palatinewolfsblog · 1 year

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Nice and easy...

Remember:

We only hear the melody of life

when we open our hearts to others

and share beautiful moments with them."

U.N. Owen.

Thank you, Tina,

for turning towards us

and for making our lives rich.

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brookheimer · 1 year

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been seeing some weird takes ab the shiv pregnancy. like being ambivalent about how the writers will play it is one thing — it could end up being an incredible exploration into shiv’s internal life and her as a person beyond her relationships with men, but there are also a lot of ways to fuck up a pregnancy narrative and most are exercises in thinly veiled sexism, so it’s only natural to feel uncertain. we just don’t know how it’ll go yet!

…..buuuut. saying that pregnancy playing a role at all in shiv’s life/arc/character inherently reduces her to being The Woman just feels soooo like … rooted in internalized misogyny to me? that’s kinda doing the same thing as everyone always does — thinking less of a woman once she shows signs of, y’know, actually ‘being a woman’ quote unquote. a female character won’t stop being fully-fleshed-out, strong, independent, and interesting the second she get pregnant. pregnancy isn’t, like, just a sexist trope, guys. it’s a real thing with real importance in the lives of many, many people! pregnancy isn’t reductive to women, it’s just a part of life for some women! a lot of the time it feels like ‘good female characters’ are only seen as ‘good’ so long as you can almost forget that they’re female, so long as they act so ‘masculine’ it’s like they’re just a regular complex male character repackaged in a female body. but to be a complex female character, you’re going to have a relationship to your gender! that’s inevitable and necessary in order to actually create a good female character, rather than a good character who just so happens to be female. and this isn’t even touching upon the weird essentialism of being like oh womanhood = pregnancy & vice versa like…. y’all are complaining about the show ‘reducing shiv to womanhood’ but are you sure you’re not doing that? and besides what do you even mean ‘reduced to womanhood’? was she not a woman before? is she only a woman now that she’s pregnant? just some fucking bizarre takes all around.

the rest is under the cut because this got long, sorry !

i mean, why are we acting like the decision to explicitly explore shiv’s relationship with motherhood and femininity is bad writing and rooted in misogyny — like, not even the way it’s done, just the decision to make shiv pregnant? like, making a female character pregnant is not sexist in itself, at all! that is just part and parcel of some women’s lives! the only reason you would think pregnancy as a concept for a woman is sexist is if your internalized misogyny makes you think that pregnancy weakens or devalues a ‘strong woman’ !!! why are y’all acting like pregnancy is this terrible emasculating trope that puts the curse of Woman on characters like you sound like the roy men

and, like, maybe the storyline will suck! maybe it’ll be shitty and weird and not-so-secretly misogynistic. maybe the way they end up writing it will be yet another Career Woman Grows Heart And Has Kids or the equally bad Career Woman Feels Forced To Reject ‘Womanhood’ Entirely And That’s Supposed To Be Empowering narrative. but maybe it won’t. maybe it’ll be fucking great. maybe it’s fucking needed — maybe it will try to unravel to undo this exact centuries-long prejudice against pregnancy, against women who ‘act like’ women, whatever that’s supposed to mean. we just don’t know yet. so, like, while it is so fair to feel ambivalent about this development, maybe try to figure out what the root of that ambivalence is — is it fear that the writers will fuck it up, or is it your own pre-existing biases about pregnancy and stereotypically ‘feminine’ experiences and traits? because, yknow. it just feels kind of weird to act like the mere existence of pregnancy in the arc of a female character is inherently diminishing and reductive to her — after all, what you’re saying between the lines is not only that pregnancy diminishes and reduces independent powerful women to just being women, but youre also literally reducing the entirety of womanhood to pregnancy and the entirety of pregnancy to womanhood, and all of that feels just, like. a strange stance to take, maybe

#this is not about anyone or anything in particular!!!! i’ve just seen a lot of random weird posts and tags that just have these undertones #of internalized misogyny and judgment towards pregnancy and a lot of things that i just like… don’t think people really meant to say #if that makes sense. like it’s not purposeful there’s just some really weird language being thrown around that just feels very like… judgin #a woman for ‘acting like’ a woman #which is inherently a weak bad thing #like womanhood and strength are not diametrically opposed guys. you don’t have to choose between self-respect and femininity #actually this is getting into another arg about the unempowering nature of a lot of abortion plotlines these days but that’s for another #time so i digress #might delete this later i’m not trying to like start drama. i’m just thinking thoughts ab shit i’ve seen on reddit twitter sometimes here #sometimes articles…. idk. just thinking thoughts here fr #succession #succession spoilers #shiv roy #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy #100

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hauntedbythenarrative · 2 years

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Solid, Muna//Michał Elwiro Andriolli 1836-1893 (Polish), Mother, 1888

#solid #muna #mother #art #quotes #web weaving #words #mine #strength #resilience #womanhood #witchy #witch #witches #pearl #water #🐚#storm

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b-e-l-l-a--l-u-n-a · 1 year

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Isis

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iristhemuse · 5 months

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Entidade sagrada,

Que doa as devotas,

Lindos fluxos da bela mente.

As doe todo os saberes.

Para que elas não aceitem os amores,

Do homen que mente.

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denkisauce · 1 year

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it’s my birthday today :3333 :DD

#everything is WACK #i kinned deku too hard and cried all week and then mustered all my strength to defeat my local villain #(this week has been SO CHAOTIC and i wanna write all about it but also i’m so tired from talking about it agdjfjd AH #but i organized a meeting with my bosses and some other girlies on behalf of all the girlies i work with #to make our bosses hold our resident creep accountable and hopefully get him fired :D #this guy has been making my life hell for like a year and has been creeping on this new girl and ahhhh #ah it just feels good to put all the pieces together and make a big deal and realize our bosses have our backs!!#but i literally cried so much this week like it was not easy!!!!! AH #it was so weirdly emotional and stress inducing but it felt good to really be heard ☺️#anyways being nonbinary + masc i feel kind of distant from my womanhood most of the time but this week i’m like!!!! yes yes yes girlies #anywhoooo #<3 #perbsonal

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littleflowerfaith · 1 year

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“On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭138:3‬

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crymeariveronceagain · 2 years

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“For me, the distaste filled me with a quiet hatred of girls who liked pink, who spent more than ten minutes on their hair, who did makeup, who liked disney princesses longer than I did, who loved dolls. It was quiet, but I considered myself more powerful than them.”

that it. that’s exactly how i thought most of my childhood.

i spent the whole time thinking i was, well, better than the other girls for not liking pink makeup and dresses. i would constantly make fun of my sister for being girly, because i thought you had to choose between being strong.

i wanted to be odd

i wanted to be wild

i wanted to be strong

and i was convinced that i couldn’t be feminine because that was the opposite. the only traditional feminine thing i thought i didn’t choose between from was being nurturing.

now i have an obsession with feminine women who are nurturing, wild, odd, and so VERY badass, and poets like Nikita Gill because it shows you what i had needed to be told as a child

you can be fierce protector

you can be a nurturing caretaker

you can be a feral forest nymph

you can wear those sparkly dresses

you can be all those things at once, you don’t have to choose between femininity and strength, because they are one and the same.

i wish someone had told me that i didn’t have to choose between being a warrior and a princess. i wish someone had told me i could also could be a queen who still wears dresses but also carries a sword

yeah <3 it's such a broken world we live in.

You should never feel like you have to pick between being a tomboy and being girly.

The most feminine thing a woman can do is be herself.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a woman who just straight up loves who she was created as and loves her own expression of who she is.

#frizzle mcshizzle #femininity #women #woman #STRONG AND FEMININE ARE NOT ANTONYMS.#STRONG AND FEMALE ARE NOT ANTONYMS.#STRENGTH AND WOMANHOOD ARE NOT ANTONYMS.#STOP! PRETENDING! THEY ARE!#@everyone in the whole wide world #thanks for the ask!

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glitterpennotes · 1 month

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am i gentle or am i scared?

i draw hearts next to intense items on to do lists. is it in kindness to and in support of myself? or because even in my own writing i am afraid to come off demanding or anything less than sweet?

#poetry #writers and poets #poets #womanhood #late night thoughts #self reflection #inner thoughts #people pleaser #walking on eggshells #inner child #inner peace #inner strength #anxitey

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emiliejolie · 4 months

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ughh

Female rage is working your ass off to build strenght yet that little teenage boy is still stronger than you.

#It makes me so fucking sad and angry that men are born with more testosterone so they can build muscle easier nd faster #Men #Female rage #Womanhood #proud to be a woman though #gym #Gymrat #Muscles #calisthenics #strength #🖤

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7loveneverfails · 9 months

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I have been thinking about what it is to be a woman. In a way, I can understand how difficult it is to see the beauty and strength of a woman, because our society has told us for so long that women are only doing things properly when we behave like men.

Being married to a good man and being a mother has helped me understand the beauty and strength I posses. It doesn't look like a man's strength, it is different and both are good.

I wish we wouldn't scoff at being truly feminine. It isn't weakness or lack of assertiveness or any of that nonsense. It's quietly ruling the world by forming humanity. It's standing as the pillars for our men and allowing them to thrive.

I think men struggle because women are forgetting how to be feminine; we forgot how important it is, that there is a reason we were made this way.

#thoughts #womanhood #feminine strength #the hand that rocks the craddle rules the world

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candylandphotos · 10 months

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Beautiful women

"Unveiling the Beauty: Embracing the Grace and Power of Beautiful Women."

#Feminine allure #Timeless elegance #Inner confidence #Captivating charm #Radiant beauty #Empowering presence #Natural grace #Diverse representation #Individuality celebrated #Inner strength #Striking features #Positive self-image #Empowered women #Unique beauty #Celebrating womanhood #pretty woman #beautiful women #pretty girl

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