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More musings on femininity: You can’t perform femininity. Femininity is not self-aware. True femininity is a built-in identity. It exists in the subconscious, like breathing. But unlike breathing, once you pull it into consciousness, it ceases to exist. In its place, false femininity arises, which can manifest in two main ways. On one hand, it can look like mousiness, weakness of character, and an oppressed spirit. On the other hand, it can manifest as a “divine femininity” superiority complex or a theatrical cuteness. Interestingly, all of these have something in common, which is inauthenticity. They are performative. These false displays of femininity crave to be seen and will quite literally pose with feminine props (purses, hair bows, the latest fashion) craving the eye of a camera, whether online or in real life. It is masked attention-seeking. Which is the exact opposite of femininity. Femininity does not seek attention, but ironically real femininity draws attention organically because it is so beautiful. It is so beautiful because it is real, from the soul, not an outward performance. It is not a show, rather it is embodied in a real woman, which makes it so powerful and awe-inspiring.

Gorgeous. I’ve noticed how most women today never do their hair, instead just leaving it messy and disheveled when going out of the house. Or their hair is so badly damaged and thinned by over-dyeing, chemical products, and bad diet. I believe this is one of the (smaller) consequences of the breakdown of the family and resulting loss of generationally-shared wisdom. It is not just the loss of passed-down wisdom and knowledge, but the erasure from our cultural understanding of how valuable that generationally-shared wisdom and knowledge is in the first place. The loss of haircare knowledge and current apathy towards how one’s hair looks in public can be thought of as a proxy for the breakdown of the intergenerational family and of mass cultural degeneration. Additionally, the loss of haircare knowledge isn’t just a loss of information, but of value. I wish that hair care, in addition to other womanly arts, had been passed down to me by my mother, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, etc. It wasn’t, and while I keep my hair healthy and eat well, I’ve had to start from zero in my knowledge of haircare and styling. I search Google or ask AI for haircare tips and techniques. Algorithms have replaced oral and written tradition. While I have nothing against algorithms, in the case of something like womanly arts, algorithms cannot possibly replace a grandmother’s loving hands teaching her granddaughter how to braid her hair and decorate the result with ribbons. In the end, I am optimistic because I can be a solution - I can be the one to begin rebuilding the stores of feminine wisdom for my family. Small restorations of lost value, like learning the skill of haircare, can become part of the canon of family wisdom that gets passed down and improved, not degraded, with each new generation. #beauty #womanstr #momstr #mumstr #femininity #feminine #heritage #family #legacy #generationalLegacy #hairstr #haircare

If only ✨ #womanstr #beauty #feminine #femininity

A little #grounding for my ingredients before I turn them into the world’s best tea ever lol 🌱🍃🍵 #foodstr #healthstr #touchgrass #antioxidants #fuckbigmedicine #fuckbigpharma