Realization for the Day


"Stay focused, and look for the potential in each moment. Use your imagination."

Dedicated to Jenny L.

"The spirit never ages

Dedicated to Frances Wagner, 97 years old.

"Teachers must listen to their students in order to teach them"

Dedicated to MCI.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Real Women

                                                                   Real Women
It’s time to start writing about women.  Women compete every day in a world that is typically masculine in nature.  When a woman is hired over a man, she is ultimately challenged by male dominated industries, employers, or co-workers that eventually tear at the fabric of her feminine qualities.  They expect her to compromise with their pre-existing conditions, all created to maintain a male agenda. If she does not conform and stands strong in her convictions to maintain her own power, the war is on.  Threatened by her fierce determination and undying commitment to her values, she is a target for the status quo.  Coming at her like a pack of well trained dogs, each taking their turn nipping at her heels, they will try to exhaust her, hoping to wear her out, to weaken her resolve, until she compromises. If they are successful, she may branded weak and worthless or just pushed aside in defeat. 
If she attempts to become a man she will have lost, as no woman can fully beat a man at being a man.  Women have many possibilities that inherently offer them advantages men do not acknowledge.  Even if a woman is successful at containing and stuffing herself into the male form she will eventually suffer within and suffocate in her own anguish.  This is another form of self-defeat that erodes and murders the woman within. 

 Men don't often embrace a woman’s worth, what she naturally brings to the table and will not let her BE.  Her strengths are undeniable, but not acceptable.  She must be changed into a man or be deemed an object of desire.  Women who challenge these roles have much to offer.  They are self-sufficient, secure and extremely powerful individuals.  They bring amazing gifts to those who are think of feminine qualities as being elegant, beautiful, graceful, motherly, endearing, and attractive, I am referring to the feminine qualities which include creativity, dedication, attention to details, perception, intuition, fierce loyalty, maintaining the integrity of a group/family, bold initiative and follow through in accomplishing a worthy goal.  I am sure I have missed a few.

Women who express their true feminine qualities have a chance to survive the status quo, bringing exceptional results to any workplace, family, and world concern. Compromise is not a healthy choice for any woman who wants to survive whole.

Karen Carlsson

September 7, 2012

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