Both: What do you admire about women?

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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It’s difficult to make a statement like this about 50% of the population. Women aren’t a monolith and I don’t want to generalize. I guess I admire how women have fought against (and continue to) sexism and misogyny to be able to live more full and fulfilling lives. I feel like it’s amazing and wonderful being able to carry a human life inside of you and I admire the immense labor, pain, and effort that requires. There are many other things I admire about individual women or groups of women, but those seem like the most universal.

[–]worried19[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. Yeah, the first and second wave feminists were up against a lot of adversity and persevered, so I think that's admirable.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Women I know are very brave and lived through much more pain than I could even handle.

[–]luckystar 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Questions like these are hard because I think the only thing all women have in common is biological sex, so anything I can say will go back to biological sex. In that sense though, I do deeply respect mothers and I think it is amazing that we women can create and sustain life in our bodies. But I don't begrudge women who do not have children, either because they can't or because they don't want to.

[–]Porcelain_QuetzalTabby without Ears 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nothing? There are many women I admire for what they have done, despite beeing women. But there none I admire for beeing women.

[–]worried19[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do you admire anything about women as a group?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Admiring anything is to be mired in illusion.