Semi-feminist.

If I hear people use the words feminism and Sarah Palin in the same sentence one more time, I'll scream. You really can be pro woman and anti Palin. VERY anti Palin. What is a very bad thing for the woman's movement? Sarah Palin!

I acknowledge that there is a lot of misogyny in the world and it needs to be addressed, yet I am really not much of a feminist. I feel annoyed by radical feminism. I cringe anytime I read the word "womyn". I suppose it's because my experience with that has always been men bashers and haters. As with almost everything that becomes twisted and fully out of balance, it lies not so much with men/women, but with mainstream society. It's such a sick twisted world 'out there'.

The men in my life are loving, caring, smart, strong and respectful. Not because they should be - or have to be - but simply because of who they are. I wouldn't surround myself with any other kind. Equal rights? Of course. But men and women are different.

I read this article by Roslyne Sophia Breillat this morning.

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There is an inherent wildness in woman that cannot be contained or controlled without creating disturbance within her psyche.

Woman’s innate feminine intuition cannot flow spontaneously when masqueraded beneath a rigid cloak of time, schedules, briefcases, business suits and corporate board meetings. Such efficiency is alien to the timeless quintessence of her mysterious depth, which emanates from an inner place beyond the outer world of existence.

When lured from her vast female profundity into the forceful ways of a male-dominated civilisation, she loses touch with the exquisite simplicity of her true magnificence. In the outer world, she has become manipulated into being man’s “equal” through chasing him, following him, competing and achieving with him, instead of being together with him in love. When softly content within her being, she has no need for such competition, as she knows it is not her true nature. Through striving for “equality” with her man in his domain of incessant distraction and instant gratification, she leaves the fineness of her presence and the wisdom of her truth. The female spirit is nurturing, receptive, gentle and peaceful, embodying an ancient knowing that needs no explanations, no structures, no adornment, no complications.