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“Strong” Women Are The Mass-Manufactured Femininity Pawns They Complain About
Most women are only confident to the extent that men allow them to be. Because why can women only define strength, high standards, power, and femininity to what they can receive from men?
Unless you as a woman can confidently stand tall and proud on your own without needing men to define who you are, my dear you are not the strong woman Madonna is speaking of. Any strengths you do possess have been defined by the opposite sex to only come in handy when it comes to relationships, marriage, and family by using your motherhood instincts and mass-manufactured femininity skills to keep these units together.
I should add that there is nothing wrong with this at all. But you are not in the same league as those women who not only have the pleasure of picking and choosing men, but also deciding if they even want a man in their lives. Most ladies have no choice but to settle down with any man so that he could give them a purpose, busy work, and children to occupy their time with, but let them tell you that they are the strong women weak men are afraid of!
For the most part, men are not afraid of women. Men are physically stronger than us, plus in our patriarchal society men control women, especially in ways we are not fully conscious of. This mass-manufactured femininity…
