I’m posting this now before I forget. Back in November a friend of mine called Mary linked me to some really interesting videos. They are no longer online, at least for the time being. The videos were short documentaries on different subjects with a distinctively philosophical and musical approach.
One episode was about men and women. All sorts of points were raised, from the hard-core feminist to the absolute chauvinist. One point that I particularly found empathy with was Marianne Williamson’s view that feminism/ current gender ethics has resulted in “a generation of hard women and soft men.” And I agree to an extent. Here is a trailer for that video. For the time being you can’t watch the full video, but if it’s ever back online again I’ll post about it.
Here’s something I wrote a while ago and I still stand by these words:
Boys and girls are different, suited to different things. Feminism seems to have become hypocritical, given that many feminists are almost saying that women should be more aggressive, go-getting, forthright and ambitious. These things are very masculine. There is nothing bad about femininity, femininity is beautiful. I do not want to be masculine, but I grew up thinking that women should be masculine, lest they betray the sisterhood. I see myself as a feminist because I want to celebrate my femininity; I want to celebrate my passivity, my desire for a simple and ordinary life, my joy in domesticity and family. I do not mean that I am meek or submissive, I mean that I think ambition and greed and forthrighteousness is ugly and unsustainable. Life is a balance. A world that becomes too masculine will be a world that destroys itself.
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