Women are very powerful beings

[Sarahpaula]

Hi. I am really into spirituality, and I read a lot of spiritual books. Many of these books say the same thing.

That the general reason why men are so abusive to women in this generation, is because women are in fact far, far more powerful than men, and men are afraid of how powerful women are.

This is why men spend a lot of time trying to make women feel inferior, and to forget their own power.

Men have implemented many tricks to make women forget their power by

1. Starting religions which told women that they were inferior,
2. Making science very dominant and male energy-based, making women forget their important spiritual powers and powers of intuition
3. By disrespecting childbirth.
4. by shaming menstruation, telling women it is dirty, when actually menstruation is a very important spiritual, physical and mental time for women.
5. By degrading women in porn
6. By keeping women out of politics.
7. by shaming women if they do not have children. So that most women still focus primarily on child rearing.

Men have done all these things to make women forget who you really are: you are incredibly powerful beings.

Remember how powerful you are as a woman, and all of those systems of abuse will begin to change.
When one woman remembers how powerful she is, it will help all women to be freer in the future.

There’s nothing spiritually powerful in periods. They’re messy, painful and inconvenient. Personally, I can’t wait for them to be done with and find this woo waffle downright patronising. I’ve had 38 years of dealing with them and I can tell you what works: 2 x Feminax and a Buscopan Plus.

In fact, it's a known fact that abuse often starts or ramps up in pregnancy and keeping a woman pregnant all the time is a common abuse/control tactic. Because it works. It makes us vulnerable. Our biology and ability to bear children get weaponised against us all the time.

But what does that mean for women who struggle to conceive or don't want kids?

On a biological level, we are here to reproduce. (I'm not suggesting that people that do not have children do not matter,but at a basic level survival of the species is the most important thing. That's why we partner up, that's why we have pheromones and hormones etc.

@ShebaShimmyShake apologies, my wording was insensitive. What I mean is I sometimes privately think that, regardless of whether we have children or like children or can have children, we are biologically predispositioned to be better at certain things. Because we are as women, the only one of the two sexes who are bearers of children.

@Cheeeeislifenow put it much better than I did. I also completely agree with you as a separate point though @ShebaShimmyShake that our role as child bearers does make us very vulnerable and it's really sad.

And I feel like modern society simultaneously values is less in the work place for being mothers but also places no value on, and makes little allowance for, women raising children at home.

@Gancanny

Not to mention, 40% of domestic abuse victims are men

According to ONS, in 75% of the domestic abuse-related crimes recorded by the police in the year ending March 2019, the victim was female.

In fact, this generation is the least abusive men have ever been to women

The number if people murdered in 2019 as a result of domestic violence was at its highest level in five years. Police have also reported an increase in domestic abuse calls since the start of lockdown. The majority of victims in these cases are female.

No one is saying that male victims are not important but whenever violence or abuse against women is discussed there is always someone who will chip in to remind us "but what about the men!". Yes, men can be victims of abuse too but the 'whataboutery' was unnecessary. The discussion in this instance was about female victims of domestic violence, we do not need to centre men in every discussion and should be able to discuss women without someone popping up to ask "what about men?".

Absolutely agreed.

It is an absolute truth that the VAST majority of abuse victims are still women and children PLUS It's got much worse since covid.

Every time the subject's raised these women (we think) chirp up with the 'men get abused too' defence which attempts to dismiss the subject - until its them or their kid.

OP is posting about patriarchy and most of these responses - and the angry responses - prove its still pretty bad among women.

I sometimes think that being the bearer of children is the root of what stops us from achieving equal power in the world. Certainly the fact that we have a time limit in a way that men haven't gets weaponised all the time.

This is very true. But in some cultures it's more respected and there are many v high operating matriarchs. I'm not so sure about in the UK

Interesting

www.conservativewoman.co.uk/male-oppression-a-brief-history-of-nonsense/

Women are not more powerful, we are equal. Hopefully you dont have boys.

[quote gurteee]Interesting

www.conservativewoman.co.uk/male-oppression-a-brief-history-of-nonsense/[/quote]
Oh great, a man telling women, "Stop whining, you're not THAT oppressed."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

"Being not only the earliest known poet in world history, but also one of the earliest women known to history, Enheduanna has received substantial attention in feminism. To mark International Women's Day in 2014, the British Council hosted a pre-launch event for Niniti International Literature Festival in Erbil, Iraq, where "writer and previous NINITI participant Rachel Holmes [delivered] a TED Talk looking back on 5000 years of feminism, from major female Sumerian poet Enheduanna, to contemporary writers who [attended] the festival".[38] In 2017, London and Oxford Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History Eleanor Robson described Enheduanna as "a wish-fulfillment figure...a marvelously appealing image".[39]

Well I found this interesting even if I did hear about it from a man