As women have begun to get in touch with
their feelings about being women in our society and as men begin to notice changes in the women they know best, and in the collective consciousness of women, relationships between women and men are beginning to change dramatically.
Actress Kirsten Dunst, who graces the cover of Harper's Bazaar UK this month, caused quite the kerfuffle recently when she expressed how
she she feels about being a woman.
My emotions and
feelings about being a woman.
When asked in a 1965 interview, «How do
you feel about being a woman painter?»
Not exact matches
If a young
woman entrepreneur hasn't found a market for her product outside of her sorority sisters, Whitehead says, it
's crucial to
be able to tell her that without worrying
about hurting her
feelings.
I had an investor say, «I think you
're amazing, but I have to pick one or two board seats a year and where I
feel really passionate
about the business, and I don't think I can
be passionate
about women's dresses and retail.»»
For the size conscious, manipulating larger sizes (like size 2
women's dresses actually
being size 8) helps the consumer
feel good
about what they
are paying for.
I
feel like
women are going to love it,» the actor said
about Fabletics.
That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might
be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the
women in question
feel about it.
When confronted with a powerful
woman, many men apparently
feel as if they've
been (or
are about to
be) castrated.
And what I hate
is that
women are always asked the question
about diversity, and if you
're one of the few
women in the room, you
feel obligated to raise it as an issue, when you would rather far often talk
about the economics of something.
«It
's wonderful to see
women feeling entrepreneurial and bold
about what they can bring to the market and to the culture.»
Men (68 %)
feel that they
are more knowledgeable than
women (49 %)
about managing their finances.
«
Women feel especially stressed
about household debt because it
's added to their list of things they have to do,» said Dean.
The authors of the report — professors at Georgetown University, Harvard Business School and Morehouse College president David Thomas — interviewed 30 of those
women, asking
about the skills, attributes and workplace strategies they
felt were important for getting ahead.
An Alberta
woman is hoping her contribution to a new book will inspire
women to
feel more worthy
about themselves.
A San Diego
woman who said she
was raped by the «Golden State Killer» as a young teen spoke out
about the relief she
felt after hearing a suspect
was arrested in the decades - long hunt for the perpetrator.
But fired up as I
was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards
women in the Church, I
felt bombarded by messages
about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.
There
are borderline sexual assault scenarios that
are viewed as standard procedure by much of the PUA crowd — this
is clearly not the place to argue that but I
feel it'd
be wrong not to point out my disagreement with that point — but above and beyond all that
are incredibly dehumanizing assumptions
about both men and
women that underly the process.
Then in 2015 Mr Page gave an interview to the BBC
about freedom of religion where he reiterated his original position, saying: «My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it,
was to do what I considered best for the child, and my
feeling was therefore that it would
be better if it
was a man and
woman who
were the adopted parents.»
We returned and for a short time it seemed normal, but then strange things began to occur again behind thr scenes with one controlling narcissist
woman whose family
is friends with the pastor (so if she doesn't like you or
feels threatened by you in any way plants bugs in his ear to affect leadership choices and assignments and negative treatment / assumptions
about anyone she pleases).
The reason
women talk so much
about «having it all»
is because, truly, none of us
feel like we do.
However I
feel about Jesus» reply to the Sadducees concerning the poor
woman with seven consecutive husbands, I
am glad that Jesus cited Exodus to demonstrate to his opponents why he believed that God «
is God not of the dead, but of the living, for they
are all alive to him.»
Like the part
about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he
feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we
're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I
'm just a weak mess of emotions and that
's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.
She
's started a movement protesting this phoniness and encouraging girls and
women to
be real, to
be themselves, and to not allow the world to dictate how they should look, what products to use, or how to
feel about themselves.
Furthermore lieing to
women about how bad they have got it, leading
women to
feel oppressed it
's no wonder
women feel bad and want to complain.
If you don't wish to consider the points made
about lying, patronising and manipulating
women's
feelings that of course
is your prerogative.
Men
are just lucky
women are more sensitive to
feelings, because most of us could have you crybabies cowering in a corner in
about two seconds.
Lying to
women with a conspiracy theory
about systematic oppression
is also, as
is manipulating
women's
feelings to unnecessarily
feel bad.
I've received countless emails from
women who, upon reading
about the original intent of Proverbs 31 in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer
feel that they
are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of womanhood.
It
was their memory of him as well as their conviction
about him which they shared with others, so that men and
women who had never seen Jesus came not only to believe in him but also to
feel that they had known him.
There
were pictures of
women, every tribe, every tongue, on every wall, and so it
felt like everyone here in the world
was there with us, somehow, and a gigantic canvas on the stairs said: There
is no such thing as small change, and the famous red couch at Idelette's
was worn out and comfortable, especially with Kelley sprawled on it, twisting her hair unconcernedly when she really got talking
about the theology of adoption and Lord, yes, that
woman can preach and teach in a living room beside a piano better than some preachers I've seen in thousand - dollar suits on a television show.
I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it
's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of
feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre
women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the
women in my circles spoke
about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks
about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.
In response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from
women who say they
feel their dignity and worth have
been restored, from multiple readers who have changed their minds
about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has
been renewed, from
women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using them.
i
am a buddhist now and
feel indifferently
about a
woman covering her head, though respect the choice to do so, so long as it
is a Choice.
No honest
feelings about women in ministry have
been expressed.
Something
is better than nothing, of course, but the
woman felt that since the man had not cared enough to inquire into their situation, that he did not care
about them as people.
There
is no way Ms. Kelly could have
felt that the main topic had no impact on her as a
woman — even if she planned never to have children, the fact that she
was a career
woman did make this
about her in a way that it simply
was not
about the two men.
While I have, I think, a reasonably good picture of why men in a macho culture
felt they needed to keep
women down, I deeply resent having learned the concept of «
woman'
s work» at home and having
been treated to lighthearted scoffing
about «lady Ph.D.
s» in college.
Yet because of my previous research focus on
women in the church and my acquaintance with political theology and critical theory (Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
was a student of J. B. Metz and edited an issue of Continuum on Jürgen Habermas during the late»60s), I
felt uneasy
about two trends within the emerging feminist theological discourse.
I
felt honoured, but realised I hardly knew anything
about this young
woman who
was paying me such high compliments.
It
's because I care
about women, know that we
are equal, and
feel that if they
are a part of the church they should have the same freedoms, rights, and responsibilities as men.
Most of the colonists
were men and
women who had
been profoundly converted, inwardly reformed and renewed, and who
felt uneasy and unhappy
about continuing to live in an England where they
felt much
was corrupt in church and state.
There
are moments when any man or
woman likes to luxuriate in sentimentality and to indulge in a merely emotional
feeling about life.
Some
women don't like that and would rather men talked more
about feelings rather than
be «strong».
He said: «To most English people under 40 a discussion of gay bishops or same - sex marriage
feels as relevant and inviting as one
about women being allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.»
This
is one reason I haven't talked up to now — 1 knew I'd get emotional
about it... You know, this
is the first time I've
been in a group with other
women who
feel the way I do.
We might keep our
feelings to ourselves because we don't want to cause the
women in our lives to worry and therefore
be concerned
about how
women we care for
feel to deal with on top of anything that might
be troubling us.
This week, in light of even more
women coming forward with stories of
being abused and harassed by powerful men, she tweeted this: «If you want to know how Jesus
felt about women & treated
women, read the Gospels.
He «found a
woman with whom he
felt able to
be completely open
about himself» — and this not long after the Narnia stories, in which Lewis finally made his peace with the loss of his mother and his alienation from his father.