What is Femininity? (Divinity Within Series)

Hello all you beautiful souls, and welcome to the first ever blog post on Yinity. As I'm writing this, I can't help but to think of all the women that are awakening to their higher selves, and realizing the power they have not only in their careers, and education, but a deep, profound spiritual level as well.

So... What is Femininity?

Is it a style? How a woman dresses? How she carries herself? Or does the concept of femininity change throughout time periods? People have gotten so caught up with defining femininity on an external level, they have not come to realize that femininity is a form of internal energy. The masculine and feminine energies have existed since creation, long before women started wearing Lucy dresses and high heels. There can be so many debates on how a woman carries herself that is feminine, but most of the world can generalize the feminine energy as nurturing, soft and passionate. Femininity is also creativity. It's like the saying goes, you can give a woman a house and she'll turn it into a home; you can give a woman many things and she'll find a way to transform it into something greater. Unfortunately, our society has shifted away from some of the matriarchal components and the world is imbalanced with more masculine energies.

Before I continue on any further with this post, I would like to note that masculine energy is not something to be resented. A lot of feminists like to coin a man who displays copious amounts of arrogance and ego as "toxic masculinity", which comes off to many men as a woman saying "masculinity is toxic", when in reality, it is simply "masculinity out of balance". I would like to stress that anything out of balance can become toxic, that includes feminine energy as well.

That is why I do not stress the need for neither a matriarchal or patriarchal society. I wish for a society that balances both of these powers. Currently, we are in a very imbalanced Patriarchal society. This might be a hard pill for women to swallow, but men are not the only ones to blame for this imbalance. Women are being taught to abandon the more feminine aspects of themselves, and paint the feminine components as "weak". We are being taught to prove that we can do X,Y, and Z just like any man. Do I think women can be Engineers, Lawyers, and CEOs? Absolutely. Do I think women should pursue these careers? ABSOLUTELY if it's their hearts desire. But at the very basis, women must come to a realization that even if we do not want children, don't desire the life of a housewife, at the very basis, we are nurturers, and we were put here on this Earth on a mission to nurture this world back into balance. We shouldn't be taught to be "strong like a man" or compete with men. We should be taught how we can bring the girl power into our workplaces and the world in order to assert our value. Women should not be competing with anyone, because we do not need to feed into that limiting mindset of "I must prove my value to the world by being an imitation of someone" or "this is the only way I will prosper". Fortunately, as we move into the age of Aquarius, a lot of women are learning not to listen to the radical feminists that entertain them with the idea of competing with a man in every aspect, and the sexist jerks that associate femininity with weakness.

I will continue part two of this post in the near future

- Marian Austin