Why Woman UP

More often that not we have heard the remark ‘ Man up’ as if insinuating that there is strength in being a man. If a man shows any sign of weakness then they are told to stop being a woman, a whoose, a sissy and so on. These foul words depicting weakness are used in the same context with the word women so does this infer that women are weak?. Why? Does our nature of openly showing our emotions spell weakness for you? Is it because we’ve been quiet for so long, taken the back seat and let you lead like the ‘head’ you claim to be?

I beg to differ, women are powerful. To that woman that has raised her children all on her own, that woman that has picked up the pieces after being broken by a man, that woman who has been brain washed to believe that she’ll never amount to anything, that woman that has been abused time and again without any vindication. For all these women, I asy Women Up

I recently attended a workshop with a the Gender Reconciliation Organization and I realized how I held this narrow minded view of Gender Equality and mostly gender oppression. I then decided to make some additions to my alterations post.

Yes it is true that women have for the longest time been oppressed by the patriarchal society and still are in the modern world. Many young women stuck in the villages making fire, fetching water and whatever is the narrow minded view of a female’s place in a home.

What is gender? Well Google says that, “Gender is the state of being male or female in relation to the social and cultural roles that are considered appropriate for men and women.” What I have deduced from this that Gender is something that has been hand crafted by society. It is something that we have normalized and used to box in the different sexes. Not only females have fallen prey to this.

Many females have failed to execute their dreams and ultimately their life’s purpose because of this social plague. Girls that have denied any form of education because they were only groomed for marriage. Families that have deemed educating a female child as a waste of time because heyy “she’ll get married and leave this family anyway”. Is her XX genotype cause for her suffering.