Day 68 - Man! I Feel Like a Woman!

So, I know I'm a tad bit late, but I need to honor Women's History Month, so this song sounded like a fun way to do so.  Granted, the song is about going out and having a girls' night out, but it sorta speaks to the fun side of being a female.  "I'm going out tonight, I'm feelin' alright - gonna let it all hang out. Wanna make some noise, really raise my voice.  Yeah, I wanna scream and shout!  No inhibitions, make no conditions, get a little outta line.  I ain't gonna act politically correct.  I only wanna have a good time."
"The girls need a break.  Tonight we're gonna take the chance to get out on the town.  We don't need romance - we only wanna dance.  We're gonna let our hair hang down.  The best thing about being a woman is the prerogative to have a little fun."  A lot of times, you associate women with hard work and taking care of the house and all of that, but this song for me deals with the fun of being able to get out and just enjoy life as a woman - free to have fun and dance in a group with your closest girlfriends and just let loose for a bit.
I love being a woman!  Now, that hasn't always been the case, and I haven't always wanted to be a woman, because I used to be under the influence of patriarchy that painted womanhood as weakness, emotional lack of control, frilly, fragile, trivial, even stupidity...  But thankfully, I have grown to appreciate the beauty of woman.  I love having women's intuition.  I love my curves and my shape.  I love that my emotions can find more free expression.  I love my simultaneous sensitivity and strength.  I love the way I can share with my sisters and we can enjoy things that are unique to us.  While all women are not the same, there are things that we share, and these things do not make us inferior to men - just different.
Celebrate your womanhood!  And if you are a man, embrace and celebrate the women in your life.  And enjoy being a man.  This is about celebrating who we are with all the difference and similarities that there are.  :)