I absolutely 100% agree with you on this Elle. The external structures of our systems and society are built in favor of men having more “power” agreed. So let’s talk about the different kinds of power - extrinsic and intrinsic.

The internal power of the feminine is actually incredibly powerful. We just don’t see it because it’s invisible.

What I have learned from my own experience over the last 20 or so years is that when I as a woman turn off my resistance to the external systems, (which I acknowledge, I have the privilege to do,) and tune into my OWN fountain of internal Eros… I change the world around me by changing the world inside of me.

I feel like the universe has my back when I stop fighting and start loving more.

So I believe we ALL have our role to play and creating a different relationship with each other and with the planet.

I agree with you - we absolutely need men to see and acknowledge how social systems that privilege men over women, children, and planet could change.

But the secret ingredient to changing culture as a whole does NOT lie with men. Unintuitive as it might seem, it will be when we women can start to rise like the phoenix from the ashes of millenia of opression, that real change will start to manifest.

It’s the turning of the wheel. It’s the spin of the taiji. It’s the balance of the vibrational wave of reality. It’s the yes, and… of culture shifts here.

I don’t write this piece just as an apologist tit-for-tat to that other one I just published about nice guys and their subconscious proclivities that maintain an uneven balance of power. I write it because for all the articles I see calling out the broken systems, I see very few of them addressing the internal power potential of a FEMININE shift in consciousness. The very idea that women can’t do as much to change the world as men can - is to me, a patriarchal perspective on power in the world.

So yes. I’m with you, and… I believe that when we quietly stop judging each other, when we stop judging ourselves, when we stop policing the feminine and masculine norms according to the rules of the existing systems - this is the seed of true change.

If I could get really nuanced, I’d be speaking to “the masculine” and “the feminine” instead of to “men” and “women” but I’m trying to reach people where they are right now, so I’m being consciously simplistic.

Ok. Novel length comment response here. I’m going to go for a swim and work on my embodied power now. Time to get out of my head!

All the love and appreciation for you, and your very sane pov on this. Thanks for the engagement!!!