Thoughts From My Shower: The War on Women – What’s Really Going OnBy Christine Agro
As I stepped into the shower today I was contemplating ‘The War on Conservative Women’, a commentary that Michelle Malkin, self-proclaimed conservative syndicated journalist, wrote today.
Ever since I read it early this morning I’ve felt that inner percolation that comes with a major piece of awareness. It isn’t that Ms Malkin is a conservative, or that she herself is a name-caller, what is bothering me is that again, still, women are pitted against each other. In her commentary she explains that she’s been called worse than a ‘slut’, referencing Rush Limbaugh’s outrageous labeling of Georgetown student Sandra Fluke who last week testified before a Democratic hearing on Women’s Health and Contraception.
The implication is ‘get over it’ as she goes on to pull out past degrading remarks made about conservative women. Always nice to add salt to wounds mind you.
So as I stepped into the shower still mulling this commentary over it led me to think about the bigger picture with regard to the current environment women are experiencing. Here’s what I saw: All the uprising around the world, the battle being waged with, for and by women in the United States – all of this is raising the boiling point to where, as Spirit in female bodies, we hopefully will choose to break the collective agreement we have been playing out for centuries. That agreement: to down play our innate power and accept living in a world that is sorely out of balance with the Masculine Principle informing everything from laws to religious edicts to social and cultural mores and worse where we accept what comes from that imbalance.
Many of us have experienced those moments in our lives where it takes the pure inner fire of ‘enough-is-enough’ to create change in our own lives. Whether it’s ending a relationship or taking that step to assert yourself. It is the inner fire of ‘this is not ok’ that burns through the unconscious agreement that had you locked into a certain way of being.
Today I saw that this is what is happening. We are being pushed to the brink of ‘enough-is-enough’ and ‘this-is-not-ok’ and I hope that enough frustration, anger, and outrage will build so that we can and do finally break this unconscious collective agreement.
Let the Feminine Principle rise up and create a healthy balance with the Masculine Principle. Let us be who we truly are, instead of who we agreed to be centuries ago.
Christine Agro is The Metaphysical Feminist. She is the Founder of FEMSocial.com a unique social networking site for women that offers both a community and experiential classes and courses that help empower women. Christine is also curating the on-line project Symptoms of Dis-Empowerment and hosts Fully Empowered – a live talk radio show heard on A2Zen.FM
