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What do you hold on to as we watch misogynists who see us as farm animals and misogynists who see us as fetish wear argue over what we are?
As someone who exists in a female body, what is your relationship to sex / gender? What does womanhood mean to you?
I think your question comes from a good place, but I am uneasy about talking about what womanhood 'means'. Being a woman is simply having female biological charactersitics. It doesn't mean anything. This language treads dangerously close to the tra language of womanhood being a feeling or an identity.
A woman is an adult human female. Woman is me and I am woman. When we get into the whole “womanhood is being strong, nurturing, blah blah blah” that’s when we lose the plot in my opinion, because then what, a man who says he’s that can now also be a woman? Of course not. Let’s get back to basics. A woman is a woman. Full stop. I’ll say what I love about being a woman, is our sisterhood with each other. That unspoken love and compassion we have for each other. I love how as women, we could meet 5 seconds ago and be so open and loving and helpful to each other, expecting nothing in return. There’s just a mutual understanding and openness that men will unfortunately never experience.
The only thing "woman" does, has ever, and will ever mean is "adult, female, person". That's not what it means *to me*. Thats what it means. Objective, not individualized.
Theres no reason to get whimsical or touchy-feely about it. The word "womanhood" makes me cringe.
We are the original gender. Male interpretations of this are meaningless. Religion is meaningless lies about the feminine. Human women are female animals, and the female is the first primordial gender, from which, the masculine is birthed. Men who claim to understand the woman are lying, as they can only understand things from a masculine perspective. The right kind of people understand that femininity is everything underlying all structures and life forms. Men should never attempt to define us. They can't.
It means adult human female.
Being a bioligical female is the first step, that's the blue print of being a woman.
Without the blue print you are a transvestite, without your ding dong you are a frankenstein transvestite.
you are born as a female and you will grow into a woman as an adult or you are not. If you are not then you are a man.
With her character A true woman in my opinion is that she doesn't blame victims, She doesn't give women advise that would benefit men especially predatos, She's on girl code, she doesn't prioritise her boyfriend or male friends comfort over yours, If you don't want him to come along she respect that.
When you go out with her she will focus on her time on you because she came with you, and she will go home with you, a person who puts you in danger by getting drunk and refuse to leave a place eventhough it's getting late is not a true woman, Women do what benefits themselves and others as a part of a friends group.
She doesn't shame standards, If you don't want a coffee date or date a single papa then she needs to shut up about it,
Don't try to hook me up with a dude she knows because he's nice, when women behave this way I rather not talk to them again.
She doesn't gossip about her friends, ever.
With other words she knows the girl code very well and doesn't make mistakes.
to me it's just being female. i know there is more to being a woman because of all the consequences of existing in a female body. but even women who have completely different experiences from mine, or from the majority of women, are still women just for being female. biology is what defines a woman. the rest is stuff we create to bring meaning to our existence somehow (divine feminine, romanticized maternity, taking care of others, etc).