This member of the choir likes be preached-to. I couldn't agree more with you.
Those who would have all women weak and passive say that, if women become strong and assertive, they lose their femininity. As far as I'm concerned, other than (possibly) a stone-butch woman in a lesbian butch-femme relationship, or if an FBB overdoes the steroids, it's impossible for any woman to lose even some of her femininity. To me, assertive, strong, confident "body-aware" women, as you put it, are MORE feminine than the timid, skinny, passive girls because they have enhanced themselves both physically in strength and shapeliness, and in mind. They have imporoved themselves as women and have ceased to hate their body, to diet in order to shrink it, (which I loathe, urgh!
) but instead are revelling in their female, muscular curves and the strength, power and sensuality of the bodies. That's feminine. That's sexy. Actually, no, it's not sexy - it's mind-blowingly, trouser-tentingly supersexy.
Yikes, I need a cold shower after that!
I understand they said the same thing about suffragettes. And many of the ones saying it were themselves women
