February 19, 2008...11:47 am
116. The essence of being feminine
Femininity maximizes a woman’s value to herself as a person. It uplifts her self-worth, enlarges her self-image, and broadens her self-interest. Acting feminine teaches her to like herself as girl, female, woman, mother, grandmother.
Being feminine makes a woman very unique, which maximizes her value to men.
Women gravitate naturally to being feminine. Individuals live and learn how to exploit their femaleness so as to deal successfully with men. They also learn by sharing experiences.
The feminine concept refreshes and reinforces as mothers impart to daughters the blessings and pitfalls of not being able to capture and hold a man.
Whereas Feminism encourages girls to ignore motherly teachings about boys, Femininity encourages girls to listen and duplicate mother’s and even grandmother’s experience. This enables each generation to improve on its ability to tame and harness male dominance for fulfilling female dreams.
In the end, being conditioned by Femininity in three phases of life as boy, single, and married, men respect the opposite sex more than they respect their own gender. So do women.
The resulting cultural institution of unconditional respect provides the deepest foundation for a man’s conditional respect for one woman. From his respect, his love arises.
One woman summarizes the essence of being feminine. She refreshingly claims that it adds color to a man’s black and white world.*
* Thanks for the color-B&W analogy to an unknown woman cited in Keys to the Kingdom by Alison A. Armstrong, PAX Programs, Inc. Sherman Oaks, CA , p.151.
[More on Femininity appears in posts 87 and 69 below. The Essence of Feminism is at post 115 below. Enter the highlighted number in the Search box above.]
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