Being a Woman Doesn’t Mean You are Supposed to Suffer for a Man

Insecure Men are Living for the Spiritual Death of Women

Moon Bastet
3 min readAug 4, 2023
Photo by Joice Kelly on Unsplash

Patriarchy ensures that there are “mandatory energetic partnerships” surrounding womanhood. There always has been.

  • There is ‘womanhood & chastity’.
  • There is ‘womanhood & obedience’.
  • There is ‘womanhood & motherhood’.
  • is ‘womanhood & nice’.
  • There is ‘womanhood & trauma’.
  • There is ‘womanhood & suffering’.

These relationships between the preconceived biblical and societal notions of what it means to be a woman are ridiculous. They are worthless and based in misogyny; however, no one seems to be letting them go fast enough.

There is still the idea that women are made to suffer in relationship to the condition of men. In society, it is perfectly acceptable that women are considered akin to indentured servants in marriage — taking on a man’s last name, doing his laundry, cleaning the family home, acting as primary parent, and working a 9-to-5 outside of the home. No, this isn’t every home, but traditionally, it is.

We won’t even step into the dark world of domestic violence statistics. Women are being beaten black and blue…

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Moon Bastet

Moon Bastet, MBA, MHRM, MPM — Witchy + Educated. Feminist. Tarot Reader. Digital Activist. - Contact: moonbastetwrites@gmail.com