By L.A. Winnen
March, 10th, 2025
The messy task of being a woman can play on one's senses. The fine lines we seem to have to walk in every aspect of life, if we are to be taken for more than just a grain of salt. A mother, a wife, a daughter, an employee, a business owner, there are many roles she can play. But the one role she seems to be forced to forget is the one she plays for herself. The consideration and self-care she denies herself in regards to the roles she is taught by the others at large around her. The trials of her labor and how she interacts with the world, seem to bring in the options of many. Her roles are always in question, from a traditional to modern, she is subject to the sharp options of each and every one. She is too bold, too sharp of tongue, too masculine. She is too weak, too sensitive, too feminine. She is to play the virtuous Madonna and the courageous heroine of a chivalrous romance; bound by the devotion she will give her husband through children and domestic labor. She is to give up all of herself for this labor of love and not question his choices and influence over her. She is to have the aspects of her family and church to be the judge and jury of her being. The values, morals, and the dreams she takes on are all to be in line with the wishes of these regimes. Yes, she is the property and puppet of these regimes and is not allowed to have abstract thoughts of her own.
Or is she? Being a woman should not be a messy affair. She should not be subject to the whims of others. She should not be a property or a puppet to the regimes of her upbringing. She should be allowed the rights of independent thought, as sharp or as thoughtful as she pleases, whether it be masculine or feminine. A sharp, bold tongue to oppose a suppressive patriarchy, who does not have her wellbeing in mind, only to have control over her person. The patriarchy needs her willing compliance due to the intimate relationships that exist between men and women. To keep their control, they need her to be naive and submissive, that is why many regimes indoctrinate girls with whimsical fantasies of romance and ideal blessings of children. They push against the ideas of career and the like-minded, as nothing more than a burden. Or if they want her to work outside the home, then she is called a superhero and tasked to take all aspects of homelife and childrearing as her own without the labor of her husband.
Why is it that we are re-entering a moment in time, where women's history is being silenced, and our rights are being taken away? Maybe we never left that era of humanity, where men question the rights of women. Men question the relationships, and the roles women play in modern times, using masked financial contributors to fuel men's disdain of women through social media channels, attempting to silence the voices of women forever. We will not be silenced by their hatred of our independent thought. We will not go back into the shadows of history. Women are the gatekeepers of existence. They hold the building blocks of personhood with their bodies, the structures of building the physical flesh intertwined with the waking of the soul. Men know this, attempt to light the switch that controls how these souls enter this world, hand picking only the male offspring as the leaders of man's kingdom. Those who control the gatekeepers, control the world, that is why they want control over the bodies of women. That is why they want to keep us as property through marriage and attempt to dim the light of women. To try and take away the word "woman", is an attempt to give us no name and to erase our history. So instead of the word "woman", we will now be known as goddesses. We are the goddesses, who are the gatekeepers, who hold the keys to heaven and earth, and we will not let men in, if they do not wish to share in our collective humanity.
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