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From early girlhood onward women are taught that the pith of their identity and self-worth comes from appearing a certain way in the eyes of the male onlooker.
Girls and women are continually instructed to mask their true physical and psychological selves. We are instructed to hide and cover their body fat, body hair, their appetites for food and sex. We are instructed to disguise our fears, angers, insecurities, uncertainties and self-doubts behind a facade of physical/sexual attractiveness and false selves. Girls and women are taught to care for others and ignore their own needs, desires, and aspirations. Girls and women are taught to compete with each other for the attention of men. One of the many consequences of this repression of The Self is that women live in a split reality: theirs, what they are really feeling and experiencing, and what is required of them by the larger masculinist society. T These factors determine who and what girls and women show of themselves, of their deepest selves, to the world and to the people around with whom they share their lives. All of these things happen as well for men but in a different albeit as tragic cultural form. |
Please note: If you currently have thoughts of suicide, I am sorry but I cannot work with you in this medium. I trust you to be honest with me about this before we begin working together. |