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seerikoko's avatar

All of this 👏🏽 the inversion of femininity by definition is why I write. It’s because we as a females carry the swords in our words. Imagine that! Also etymology.com is my favorite website too 😆 What a tool this day in age!

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Emily Hancock's avatar

I love that you mentioned swords as I looked over so many historical paintings of women yielding them to add to this, I couldn’t choose! The literal sword of the past meets the metaphorical literary sword of the present!

And yes, etymology.com is honestly a treasure!

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Isa Ryan's avatar

This is brilliant. I find it can be difficult to find a tangible definition of femininity that doesn’t stray into the poetic (not that that’s a bad thing), but you’ve managed to define it both coherently and passionately. So glad I found your page!

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Emily Hancock's avatar

Oh thank you Isa! It’s one of those words I feel undeniably attracted to yet it is a word that is sort of fraught with so many blurred perceptions and sort of cliches-so I wanted to try and get to the root of it! Thank you for being here, I have followed you on IG for years so I was excited to see you comment!

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Isa Ryan's avatar

I was tickled when I went to follow you on IG and found you already followed me 😂♥️ Please send me a DM if you’d like to do a guest post for me, I’d love to share your writing with my readers!!

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