Why I Love Being a Woman
Women are inferior. Women are double-minded. Women are evil. These are some of the expressions attached to women. Even one of my favorite singers of all time, Bob Marley, wrote and sung a song “No Woman, No Cry”. Though “Woman” in his song is a metaphor for England, you see how women simply get a bad rep.
When I think of being a woman, I think of how we bring positivity, light and beauty to the spaces we inhabit but I also think of Eve, the first woman. I think about how God created her especially for Adam, removing a rib from his side and granting it to his feminine counterpart. She was his life partner, his womb-man, his wife.
And then what did Eve do? She went out all by herself and messed everything up for all humanity!, resulting in our fall from grace, our Expulsion from Eden and the human/God severed relationship. And because Eve was so sloppy and did not listen to God’s only commandment for us at that time, it has led to the justification of the mistreatment of women world-wide, for centuries. The belief is that all women are like Eve and therefore all women must be treated subordinate. It’s a wonder to me that the majority of Christians world-wide are women (myself included) when the bible opens with a story about our wicked ways. I am being facetious here…
And I digress… because Eve does have some good qualities that Genesis did not chronicle and if Eve possessed these qualities then, then I know we certainly do now. So I’m going to take my liberty and extract the positive traits of Eve…
If you read the story you find (in short) that Eve was tempted by the serpent but all she really wanted was what the serpent promised her in the first place and that is to have knowledge of good and evil, which leads to my number one reason for why I love being a woman…
We are Intuitive
I believe that intuition is a God-given gift. That hair-raising, knot in our gut, knowing without a shadow of a doubt feeling is God’s way of telling us that “something just ain’t right”. It’s our sixth sense. I believe that we all have the gift but women tend to exercise it extremely well and more often than men do…
Now Eve could have eaten the fruit that gave her knowledge of good and evil and been selfish with it, eating it all and sharing none of it but instead she offered some to her husband, probably giving him the biggest portion, which leads to my number two reason for why I love being a woman…
We are Givers
Whether we biologically or through simulation decide to, we are embedded with the strength to carry life within our wombs, give birth and mother. Most often we are primary care givers. We give love to our spouses, our children, our friends and the rest of our family. Personally I will run myself ragged as a daughter, a sister, a friend and often neglect myself. It is what it is and I am a generous giver…
If Adam thought that Eve was crazy, deranged, he would have fled from her and the serpent, but he didn’t. He stayed right there and accepted what his wife offered to him. I can imagine that she beheld the fruit in such a way that he probably ate in straight from her hand, which leads to my number three reason for why I love being a woman…
We are Charismatic
Alluring, appealing, fascinating… women are gifted with intrigue and sensuality. We are spirit-filled, passionate, purposeful, and it manifests as our life giving, career and home building, and creativity. What I love about our charisma is that it is not to be given away but it is to be cultivated, grown and when it is overflowing we are to share it but never offer it away…
It is unfortunate that the story of Eve fades after the expulsion from the garden because I am sure that there was more to the first mother but I believe it is evidenced and obvious in women we see today… We are kind-hearted, we love long and hard, we play the hard roles of single parents and we are have the zest to make a broken family whole… We are healers… through our words, our hearts and our bodies we give and offer comfort to the comfortless and healing balms to wounded souls. When I think of how spectacular, power-filled and wise women are, I can’t help but love who God created me to be.
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Thank you Kelley for such an amazing piece.
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She went out all by herself and messed everything up for all humanity!, resulting in our fall from grace, our Expulsion from Eden and the human/God severed relationship. And because Eve was so sloppy and did not listen to God’s only commandment for us at that time, it has led to the justification of the mistreatment of women world-wide, for centuries.
Actually if you read that scripture it says clearly that Adam was WITH her when the serpent approached her. So that beginning act of curiosity was not done out of the presence of Adam, he was standing right there. So that wasn’t really on Eve, because God didn’t speak to her directly. It was Adam who relayed the instruction to Eve. God spoke directly to Adam and essentially he is the one who disobeyed. It would be the same as me telling one of my kids something then they relay that to the other kid and then go about doing what I said not to do. Which one do you think I’m really coming for?
Other than that tidbit, good post.
Hi Rich,
Thank you for the compliment… but I should have started by saying that I was being facetious… playing devil’s advocate, even though I did mention it further down. I know that Eve was not alone in the Garden and that God reprimanded them both AND the consequences of that sin were only revealed after Adam ate the fruit… yet people do believe (including theologians) that she single-handedly is responsible for the “original” sin. Because of that belief – that women are sinful, easily seduced – women have been blamed for the fall from grace and have been considered evil, witches, are not created in the image of God and so on, throughout time.
Nevertheless, this post was mainly focusing on the positive attributes of women in spite of historical stigma.