Hello Everyone - I think I've uncovered more of the roots that is creating my blank mind when I'm about to blog. I think that my self-esteem to still too attached to being liked, which will successfully silence anyone. This is such a female issue! Why do we have to be liked? Who care what other people think? Females are so deeply socialised to worry about what others need, others feel and to not upset anyone that our thoughts, needs, and rights fly right out of the window.
I realised this after reading a small article in The Guardian, Thursday 6 May, about Germaine Greer being critical of Naomi Wolf. Naomi Wolf is one of my favourite authors and in the article Naomi Wolf says that Germaine Greer is still, regardless of what she says, a mentor for her. She describes Greer as a "shit disturber and I just love that". As I read this I realised that I am a "shit disturber". I wouldn't be where I am today if I wasn't. I would be living a completely different life if I didn't disturb the shit in my family and the roles that my family, in-laws, and society were trying to pour me into. And I do believe my children would be different people if they didn't have a "shit disturber" as a mother.
I think that it is time I celebrated myself for being a "shit disturber" and to not feel afraid of doing it. Maybe I need to add "shit disturber" to my credentials. Things don't change without some serious disturbance and we all know that change is needed if women are to ever be viewed as people in their own right.
After all I wrote "The Silent Female Scream". This book is very serious about disturbing the shit that is silencing women. Amazing how easy it is to not see or recognise your own strength! A strength that has saved my life because I know that if I wasn't a "shit disturber" I would've been very depressed.
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This is so very true, Rosjke. And I cannot help thinking that if more of us realised their shit disturbing potential, this world would be a better place. How many shut up and put up in spite of knowing better? And if we do vent, how often do we only do so in a safe environment with other women? It's good to talk and be understood of course but it's time we said things out loud instead of whispering quietly to each other.
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