I’d like to share a blog post that I came across a couple of years ago, written by the wonderful /u/StingrayVC.

Being Woman

In her post, Stingray sums up what is for me the true heart of the ‘Red Pill’ for women. To understand our female nature, and to work with this, rather than against it. There is no shame in being feminine, despite what feminism, or the media, or some men might tell us. I really recommend that you go in and read the post in its entirety, think about it, and then read it again :)

We are women and we have a female nature. This nature is inherently different from male nature and gives us our own strengths and our own weaknesses. This nature, this being woman, is not inherently bad nor is in inherently good. It simply is. These are our rules and it is our sonnet to write. Trying to break these rules means playing at being men and we fail at this. We make poor men, but we have the opportunity to make excellent women.

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When we first find articles deriding what women have become today, it is very easy to get down on oneself, to start seeing women as terribly flawed and today, this is true. We’ve been learning for decades now to try to be men and, of course, we are failing miserably at it. But . . . when we learn and we try to be women, when we stay within the rules of the sonnet, we can become excellent. To hate this, to hate these rules and to find them oppressive, weak, degrading, etc is to hate what women are. It is to hate what we were born with and to deny our very selves. This is what feminism has taught us to do. To the very thing that makes us women. What I want to tell you is that being woman is not a terrible thing.

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To be woman, is not evil. It is what we choose to do with our nature that will show what kind of person we are.

She quotes John C. Wright's Transhuman and Subhuman:

Femininity requires not the sudden and angry bravery of war and combat, but the slow and loving and patient bravery of rearing children and dealing with childish menfolk... The female spirit is wise rather than cunning, deep in understanding rather than adroit in deductive logic, gentle and supportive rather than boastful and self-aggrandizing. The strong feminine character is solid in faith in all things.

  • How do you feel about this description of femininity?

  • How do you feel about Stingray's views on womanhood? Do they ring true to you?

  • Do you feel that the superficial aspects of femininity (eg looks and submissiveness) are more accepted or celebrated than the deeper and more psychological aspects femininity (eg emotionality and compassion)?

  • Do you feel that any parts of society embrace femininity in its entirety?

  • Do you feel that you embrace your own femininity?