The Essence of the Nurturing Women...from Purr to Roar - Part I
Part I of an ongoing article series on "The Essence of the Nurturing Woman and other feminine issues by:
Jennifer Elisabeth Mendez,
JENN Media Group
Part I of an ongoing article series on "The Essence of the Nurturing Woman and other feminine issues by:
Jennifer Elisabeth Mendez,
JENN Media Group
January 7, 2013
Detroit, MI - Through the ages the very innate
question has always arisen as to whether femininity the very essence of femininity
with its beauty and nature is a learned behavior through life or just merely
applied through practice.
I really do believe that men are from
Mars and women are from Venus but not literally speaking. Our natures with
regards to men and women do differ greatly albeit genetically speaking of
course. I really do believe that we
think and process differently. Our respective responses are different from men
and as women we find the need to push for that sense of security. With regards
to the stock-yard notion of thought that women are more from the garden
floral haven whereas men and their masculinity are considered the aggressive
and strong oak trees of natures very own ground.
When I look at the landscape of
womanhood I see where my mother’s own generation of girls and woman were
different and women back in those days were not ashamed to express their
femininity for fear of suppression and having been put in their respective
place sort of speak from their respective boyfriends, husbands or even the boys
clubs. But when it came to the employment field the boys club had awaken within
the woman her ability to stand up and fight albeit that of her femininity or
not.
Through out this last number of years
my own generation of women has been educated to suppress their femininity
because it was not somewhere along its lines and that in some fashion it would
prohibit women and their fight to crack the class ceiling and to move ahead
within a corporate structure. It has been acknowledged somehow that someone the “pink” who thought as the “blue” would go up the ladder quickly and prettier then
her counterpart did in "bluesville haven" if he were to think even like the “pink.”
The arched stereotypes portraying women
as a weaken vessel because of what she’s got between her legs and what she has
on her shoulders has been needing to go for centuries.
As women I
believe that we can and ought to benefit from embracing our femaleness, or womanhood,
without regard to politics, dogma or fashion or even shame for being whom we are:
WOMEN! Of course there are the men out
there that would raise an eye brow that a woman’s femininity should not be used
like some toy in attracting men, but it’s the men themselves we forget that are
attracted to the very essence of women. But in those essences it’s the woman as
onto a man that can turn it off or on as quickly as one bats an eye lash. But
naturally doing so it is the essence of the female, the very woman as it were by her mere and
very natural beauty couple with her feminine nature will aggressively, yet
submissively and subtly attract the men.
But the
question I have is if men should be the one defining women’s own femininity?
Should he be the one laying out the rules for women’s own engagements? Their
fashion sense? Should men be the one setting boundaries for women?
I myself feel as even thought men should not set such parameters for women, nor should they define
what femininity is and what the role of the woman is. They may set some 'shared' guidelines but to set such parameters I would say is nothing but foul play in
my playbook. To me as it has always been is that being feminine is the opposite
of being masculine because everything has its opposite and its no difference
when it boils down to the games men and women play and whom we are.
To me however I
feel that its just as natural for a woman being feminine as it is naturally for a
man being masculine himself. Gender traits however amongst various cultures lie
at its own continuum’s door. These traits are affected by men and women’s respective
cultures where men and women share many traits and values which for the most
part affect one another.
In some
societies its been known for a woman to be critical of her success and in which
she strives to be rewarded in her work while a man for example may not be as
competitive, yet being very aggressive and who steers clear of expressing any such nurturing feelings or placing them to the side unless he can be appreciated for doing so.
In some
cultures its apparent that the man is the aggressive and dominant male where
he’s respected and honored for being so whereas the woman is more of the
subservient one whose honored and respected as a norm for being the humble
female. The differing views of gender are that a man desires the woman and the woman
also round about desires the man and the two of them create babies together which is NOT the case for many couples.
Shall we break down some of these inner linings between a woman and a man?
Depending on
the respective predisposition of most of not all women they are then by a majority factor naturally
known for being nurturers let alone most often than not are the nurturing ones
to their respective litter of children and their aging and ailing parents.
Women by far are more affectionate and display a levy of compassion that most
men find difficulty in expressing for appearing less masculine and weaken to his or their male counterparts and colleagues in society.
When it boils down
to the essence of love both women and men have differing views on how to express love and how
love is both accepted and delivered. Form little babies to young growing children
being held, rocked and loved by an adoring and affectionate mother and having a
resounding understanding as to why grown men in many essences have a yearning
to be held by the loving embrace of their respective wives, girlfriends,
mothers and lovers or partners. Is it any wonder why?
Most if not all men by most standards strongly crave the very melting touch of a woman albeit as natural as it may be. And don’t think for one minute those women in and of them do not mind bestowing those warm touches. Men crave a nurturing personality in a woman that if the thoughts of marriage does ring at a proposed altar than that would charm true in hopes that perhaps she might be a good nurturing mother, too.
Stay tune for
more on my report on "The Nurturing Essence of Women.”
~Jennifer Elisabeth