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We all possess a level of feminine and masculine energy. That’s just something that is a fact. People often conflate these are energies with biological sex, which isn’t so. Once people stop tying these things together, they will understand it easier.

It’s like yin and yang....Yin refers to the feminine energies in life, and yang refers to the masculine energies in life.

There are sacred feminine energies, and sacred masculine energies. Both men and women can tap into these energies.

This is why we must do away with the ideas of labeling black women “aggressive” for being productive and upfront, as well as labeling heterosexual black men “feminine/gay” for expressing emotions. Not only is it offensive to black women (who have been perceived negatively for centuries), and actual gay men (as if there’s anything wrong with who you love), but it is simply incorrect.

Masculine energy is characterized by action and doing: logic, goal oriented behaviors, planning, and achievements.

-> Imbalanced masculine energy: overtly aggressive, competitive, controlling

Feminine energy is characterized by feeling and being: It’s the intuitive mode, empathy, vulnerability and creativity.

-> Imbalanced feminine energy: codependent, needy, manipulative, hypersensitive, weakness

Balancing these energies is a consistent journey.

Feminine energy isn’t defined by what you wear or how you look. It’s about mindfulness.

Masculine energy isn’t defined by aggression or overt sexual behavior. It’s about being about your business and productivity. A balance of both is what everyone needs.

Now as far as physical attributes — Knowing the difference between sex and gender is crucial as well.

Anatomical sex at birth is not the same as how you choose to express gender, which is a construct.

This is why expression via clothing compliments your gender identity. Rihanna possesses a mix of tomboy style and feminine expression. This doesn’t make her imbalanced or less of a woman.

Beyoncé possesses feminine expression and she has healthily balanced her energies, which is why she can effectively assert herself without being aggressive and still maintain class. Her energies compliment each other the same way with Rihanna.

Once women understand that femininity isn’t as rigid as people make it, then things will be better. You don’t have to subscribe to how someone else believes they should express their identity, unless you want to.

Societal norms do not have to be followed, and the less we conform to them, the more people will feel free to be themselves. Rigid ideas regarding femininity can be damaging.

This is very important, please do not ignore this.

Watch the video till the very end please (the end is when the explosion goes off.)

I live in Lebanon and the fiercest explosion went off in the midst of Beirut today, killing off an ungodly amount of human beings (more and more people are dying as I write this) and injuring up to 5000 people whose cases are immensely critical. Today,, at approximately 6 pm, hospitals were completely torn to shreds, people have been buried underneath fallen buildings, fires have been ignited almost everywhere, blood staining the streets in an excruciating manner, in addition to people that flew and fell to the sea due to the impact of the explosion. And it is certainly worth mentioning the millions upon millions' worth of damages what with buildings and cars and stores. Plenty of people are missing, it's an overall mess that is quite frankly very traumatizing.

What Lebanese people have been undergoing in recent times:

Lebanon has been going through a major economical decline that grows worse and worse by the day. The prices have heightened and the salaries remain the same, scarcely anyone has the capacity of affording basic needs anymore. There has been an unfolding revolution the past year, and the lebanese society has been protesting against the humiliation thrust upon our lives due to our miserable excuse for a government, and though the streets bled with thrashing, screaming citizens fighting for their utmost basic human rights, that caused mere to no change in the way things go around here, in fact, it only made it worse. We're being provided with, metaphorically, a droplet's worth of water and nearly no electricity, a pregnant woman has even passed away recently due to a heat stroke (as there were no means of cooling off)

What caused the setting off of this explosion?

The ignorance, heartlessness, and overall brutality of the government and the people in control.

A critical amount of chemicals (2700 tons of ammonium and other nitrates) were left inside a ship along the port of Beirut, and though the people in charge of this transaction were warned that heat and perspiration have the capability of destroying the whole of Lebanon in ode to a massive explosion, they refused to do anything about it and left the chemicals in there for years on end.

Up until, surprise surprise, the explosion went off and devestated Lebanon almost entirely.

I don't have much followers, and I know that this post isn't going to magically heal what is unfolding in this, priorly gorgeous, magnificent country, but I truly hope with all my heart that you find it within yours to spread awareness on this topic so that it would be more widespread,, so that Lebanon gets the aiding it deserves and the people from outer places slap the 'big bosses' awake, or at least pressure them into resigning, whatever it takes to make this place sufferable, tolerable, somewhere you can picture yourself residing in.

Lebanon is a place of infinite traditions, diversity, creativity, joy, and love. Most of the people here are open-hearted and wholesome. We all deserve far better.

My heart aches for the people that have passed away today, and I shall pray for the ones stuck in hellish suffering.