There are STILL *exponentially* more of us than there are of every single Washington loser put together
There is nothing to fear - and we know it now, so let's goooo!
The “No Kings Day March” - epic and inspirational - is something we need again tomorrow. Another one is coming, I’m sure, because this bullshit continues to build as they try and try to create a world that no longer exists and has not existed since the 1950’s, and not even then.
Do they really think they can put trans people, gay marriage rights, and human dignity back into the bottle?
Only if we don’t stand up. And we HAVE stood up and we will CONTINUE to stand up.
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Now, what about the women?
We have become accustomed to taking a backseat to every fecking thing in this world, and what really ticks me off on this fine day is that it continues to be considered “bad form” to acknowledge it, to be pissed, to say NO, I DON’T EFFING THINK SO!
I ran through the litany of bad situations for a friend of mine and I watched her resist it like mad. It was a physical and energetic sort of situation going on all over her face and her musculature, and it was only when I got to the end of the list, to something more socially acceptable - women being paid less and promoted far less often - that she relaxed.
This is how much we have internalized the message that we are “overreacting”, “too emotional”. This is how much we still let ourselves live by these tenets.
We have been raped, beaten, ignored, not believed, sexualized, and had our clitorises removed in other cultures. We have been minimized, shamed, made the butt of every joke you can think of, held back, called every name from the sneering talkdown of “little lady”, to the American version of the worst which is the c-word. We have been covered head-to-toe in other cultures so that we can’t be seen, can be owned, can’t be “so tempting” because men’s behavior is somehow supposed to be our fault. We have been turned into models of what we all should be and the thing is…WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE ALL OF THIS BY HOW WE RESPOND.
It is no different in this way than our national reaction to Dumptruck.
Stand up and say no. NO. It’s a complete sentence. NO. It’s a statement of where-I-stand. Be willing to find a way to bravely pay whatever acceptable prices we choose to pay - together, all of us together - of saying NO.
And regarding the political, at least, why is it that we continue to give our attention to the fear of “ohmygod what will Dumptruck do next???” when WE ARE NUMEROUS BEYOND BELIEF! There are SO MANY MORE OF US than there are of THEM!
Holy shit, y’all, just standing up and taking to the streets and saying NO. That’s what it takes. Just that. Making that phone call to the so-called representatives and saying, “your ass is MINE if you keep doing this crap”.
So, if we’re afraid, I propose that we do two things: (1) realize that there are more of us than there are of them, and that that is REAL; (2) use the fear and anger to get motivated to be more involved, to show up more, to do whatever the hell we think to do!
And now, a word from The Feminine Power
Women want to be around those who make them feel that their feminine is seen, honored and respected. Shared is another one. We so often feel very comfortable around drag queens and gay men out of drag too.
I’ve been watching an old British cop show with the absolutely ridiculously talented Helen Mirren, and in the first episodes of the first season the men are throwbacks - complete knuckle-draggers. Yeah, like the MAGA’s!
And I saw the old ways with absolute disgust - the boys sitting around at some bar, drinking, spitting and being posturing would-be men, knowing that they would be able to alleviate their complete boredom with being perpetually 5 years old by “taking” some female and lowering her over the point of their masculinity - like taking a big drink of water to balance one’s internal systems - and then throwing her to the side: mission accomplished!
The feminine is always needed. Without it, there is no balance. But we need to be like the ladies in Lysistrata. Lysistrata is a play that was written a loooooong time ago - in 411 B.C. In the play, the men want to go to war - again - and all of the women in this town say, “you do it, and you get no nookie from us”. And that stops the war.
My ladies, it is time that we honored that feminine within ourselves. I find that I have so developed the masculine - my perseverence, my meeting of my responsibilities with rigidity instead of flow, and how I care for myself which is not nearly as well as I meed to now - that finding the feminine is a journey I’m fortunate even to BE on!
And we women are really REALLY thirsty and hungry for the feminine. For our feminine.
Here is an old 1-minute clip of David Bowie talking about this, without knowing it’s what he’s talking about. It’s a really fun clip, too, because Bowie was boss.
It seems that men have yet to awaken to strategy, curiosity, and insight in this way. I don’t imagine that any of those men looked into why it was that those women were drawn to their masculinity when it was clothed in some feminine energy.
But I know the women probably didn’t know either.
Do we know it now? No. Can we start to know it now? Yes…
…if you’re determined enough, hurting enough, frustrated enough, and open to doing this together - because that’s how women roll and it’s where our freaking power lies - we can.
Is anybody out there?
I think you have to have either felt serious desperation or caught a compellingly moving vision to do the work necessary to shift yourself out of “business as usual”. I’ve been a guest in both of those places, desperation and vision, and it still takes a certain kind of focus and an effort that is based on identifying where I am allowing myself weakness, and choosing to shift into strength and self-support instead.
Are there other women out there who are fighting this fight? Who are up for it? Who are not backing down from it?
If you’re one of them, I need to know. Because this does seem the time for all of us to stand, we women, and say “we’re so freaking done”, and decide what that means, and how we can support each other.
I’m working on helping women emerge from the darkness, and it’s not proving to be an immediate success. It IS an immediate success in one way: I’m growing like mad, in a personal growth way - and on TikTok, it turns out! But I have to use any anger and frustration of my own to find more than just a goal that resonates - but a way of moving into this mission with JOY. With LAUGHTER. With HONESTY (got that one going, but have to mention it - it’s critically important). With WHAT LIGHTS ME - AND YOU - UP!
Responses from others is not immediately obvious, except on TikTok, interestingly, which I just joined about 3-4 months ago and where people seem to respond to me. Building a business is rough enough, but working on a movement is impossible when done alone. It takes time. It takes vibrational alignment. It takes patience. And that last one is the hill I regularly die on.
I need to know if anything I am doing serves any purpose for those beyond me. Who out there cares about the freedom that we, as women, need and have needed for what seems like and may well have been millenia? Because if that’s you, I need to know that it’s you, and I need to know if your voice is one that should be highlighted on my podcast and maybe even on a panel I am looking at creating.
Imagine feminine voices exploring everything related to the feminine. Imagine anything that relates to the changes we want to BE INTERNALLY and the changes we want to CREATE EXTERNALLY being on the table.
Imagine feeling not-alone because we see women talking about this?
I don’t know. I don’t know if anyone cares. That’s the onus of starting any kind of business. You are working on something that is a mystery. Will anyone care? I think they do. I just think they don’t know that this can be changed by us.
But it can. And yes, I care.
