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My mentor once said, "Nothing is more lifeless than the opinion of my enemies". I often reflect and apply those words when I hear some people talk.
Women have experienced hearing very troubling opinions about their persons from people you could term to be ignorant, stupid, illiterate in matters about women. This includes everyone alive today with me on the front row.
I was raised and fed with ignorance in many matters concerning women and our daughters. I am still unlearning many of the false beliefs I acquired by making a conscious decision to listen to the truths spoken by Love about women.
The 2 things we question about women are: a woman's identity and a woman's relevance and they are the sum total of our entire misgivings, misunderstandings, and ignorance about women. These two questions are the roots from which every other error we impugn on women are birthed.
A woman's identity and relevance make up the total of the ideas, opinions we hold about women in our homes and communities. The issues that confront women appear different in various communities early child marriages, women's rights, sexualisation of women, female genitalisation, acid attacks, restricted education access, unequal pay but they are rooted in what we think about their identity and relevance as persons.
Identity of women.
I have heard some define women as "men with wombs". Others see women as the small part taken from men. Many today simply say women are lesser beings in comparison to men.
These errors come from a place of truth but they are way off in showing us who a woman's identity truly is.
It is no wonder that for years, the religious mind has seen, treated, and promoted the idea that women are in every way subservient to men.
Women are only different from men in the earthly suits (bodies) and the connectivity/wirings/networks that happens between their earthly suits and their soul (emotions, will, and memory).
Every woman, in her essence as a person, is not different from a man. In other words, there is no such thing as a woman other than our description of her earthly suit, which we call her physical body. A woman is only different from a man as it relates to the suit she is born into to fulfil her purpose on earth.
We all live in communities that in various degrees still question the true identities of women and our daughters. Women are still been told in plain and unmistakable words:
You are primarily a sexual object for the fulfilment of men.
Your worth in life as a woman will always be measured by men.
You are deficient and less because you are a daughter or a woman.
You will remain a burden and shame in life because you are a woman.
It is no surprise why in some communities the birth of a female child is seen as "unlucky", "a deficit to the family". We are in many ways obstinate. We refuse to change and constantly ignore the truth. We insist on believing in the lies we hear or the errors we were taught or those we conceived by ourselves about women and our daughters.
When men begin to see women as their equals as persons, we are getting close to understanding the mindset of Love. A woman's body is unique and it is so designed different from the man's to fulfil specific aspects of purpose depending on the woman's life choice.
Women are not men and men can never be women. It is nothing short of subjugation to encourage any woman or daughter to seek manhood. Our earthly suits in which we were born into, make us unique in the fulfilment of certain life purposes, either as women or men.
I do not for once claim that the eathy suits we were all born into are perfect. This world is broken and it shows in many aspects and that includes the state of many of our earthly suits at birth.
A woman can accomplish any mental feat as a man. Men may be prone to certain fields but they are not exclusive to men. A woman's choice, desire, or dreams in life are within the reach of her hands depending on several factors. A woman is well capable of accomplishing phenomenal feats.
This is what Love thinks and says about women. Women have unique identities as it relates to their earthly suits and the networks associated with their earthly suits.
The failure to make a distinction between the earthy suit of a woman to the woman herself has resulted in several misunderstandings :
Women are tagged "the weaker vessels" to imply that women are less able than men.
The first woman was created from the elements of the first man to imply every woman's place is servitude and in total compliance to men.
The woman was called a "helper" to mean every woman has no place outside the dictates of her husband or male figure.
We must never treat women as a protected race. We must refrain from the mindset to see women only in the light or shadows of men. Until we know and appreciate the unique identities of women as persons, we will continuously abuse and subjugate women and our daughters.
They have dignity because of their identities as persons in human flesh.
Wake up!!
Relevance of women.
Taking our cues from our misunderstanding of a woman's identity, we belittle the place, voice, contributions of women. Shockingly, many believe a woman's significance is strictly restricted to certain physical functions like giving birth (which only women can do), breastfeeding or to the home.
We fail to see and appreciate the unique significance and relevance of women to our world. It is ignorance and I dare say, gross stupidity to imagine a world without women.
Many consider the persons and presence of women to be insignificant. This is why women are not seen as necessary or significant outside what many assume is a woman's natural jurisdiction, their marital homes, and their husbands.
We qualify significance by sexes. We erroneously say that if you are male, you have a higher significance and importance to every woman. We have been blinded by deceit and these lies are carefully kept and promoted by us in our homes and communities.
When we fail to understand a woman's identity, we fail to understand their unique place and contributions to our world. We continue to erroneously see them as: "substitute", "extras", "surplus to demand" to the needs of our world.
How long must we continue to feed on these lies?
I have addressed this in my post "What is a woman true worth?"
Sadly, It remains the narrative of a love-deficient mind to see and continue to tag women with the label of "less than". This is the subtle way of saying to women: You may be seen but your voice must be subdued or silent. You must never raise your head to be seen; talk or dare to participate.
Every woman has a place in our world. They have the right to chose, in line with Love's counsel, to pursue and accomplish their life goals.
When a company or institution insists on women and our daughters “ dressing sexy” “dressing to impress”; “openness to sexual advances from clients and bosses“ we reveal what we really think of their contributions. If the presence of women in the board room and governance is seen as strange and an anomaly, there is still an urgent need for mental reorientation in our homes and communities.
We are in a crisis but we deliberately ignore this truth. We maintain and sadly promote by our words and false promises a lukewarm attitude to the issues affecting women in our world and that includes the threat to their true identities as women and their relevance as women to our world.
We must henceforth never question the identity or relevance of women and our daughters.
Women are not less qualified or competent than men.
Women are in every way in their essence the same as men.
We must not succumb to hearing our minds say to us: " What can I do? My voice will never be heard", "The powers that be will always have their way. My voice and concerns will continuously be ignored”.
Kindly let me remind you as a woman. It's time to know and treasure your identity and equip yourself to fulfil Love's purpose for you on earth.
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