Toxic Femininity

Let’s Think About It...and Talk About It.

How often are feminine gender patterns that create toxicity considered?  This topic is one that I do not hear talked about, like, ever. I feel called to ask my fellow women to consider the repercussions of their own specific way of being toxic and ask us to bring into the light patterns that we need to become more aware of and respondible for as a whole. Life needs to be brought into balance. Polarizing male toxicity without acknowledging a similar current in the female gender avoids an important aspect of humanity.

I too often hear the words “toxic masculinity” these days thrown out like, just because I am female, I know the experiencer’s reality and what the specific toxic masculine interaction is. I actually feel lumped and projected on when I hear this language. When someone tells me that they think a man in their life is engaging in toxic masculinity, I immediately go on alert. The alert is my own curiosity, not what I am feeling lumped into. No. I am searching for what is unknown…