When the title of this book Nobody Wants to be the Girl Anymore was tested on a small group of men and women between the ages of twenty and eighty, the response was a bit surprising. Because most of the people were asked their opinion in private, and not as part of a panel, their responses seemed freer and less restricted by a fear of judgment by their peers. Younger women reacted with amusement and a smile, dismissing the title as stating the obvious or pressed the question to ask if there was anything implied that might be wrong with the female gender and stood ready to defend it. Several of the women who were a bit older, in a middle age range, and who unquestionably achieved notable success in their careers, disparaged the idea of the “girlie girl” and made unflattering comments about women who clung to more traditional stereotypes of the dutiful wife or the woman who marries for security. The group of women in the top of the age range, in their sixties, seventies and eighties, when read the title Nobody Wants to be the Girl Anymore, responded immediately: “You’re damn right.”
These were the woman who had invented and carried out many of the controversial, life-changing policies of the women’s rights movement and were the original “women’s libbers” who fought in the trenches so the girls now in their twenties could smile and dismiss the subject as old news. When the men were asked about the title Nobody Wants to be the Girl Anymore… almost to the man, they pondered and answered succinctly with a sigh: “Yeah”.
This collection of observations, put forth in the book, about Yin and Yang is not a study in the physiology or psychology of men and women in any definitive way. It is meant as a primer in understanding one facet of the Taoist philosophy, namely the thought-form regarding the polarity of male and female and how these polarities might relate to our personal lives and be used to better understand relationships and our own personal responses to situations and ideas.
Rediscovering the Power of the Female Yin
The Taoist philosophy of how male and female energy works can help you mend a relationship, find that elusive lover or even write a brilliant screenplay that resonates with authenticity– it’s all in the understanding of the inscrutable Yin and Yang. See the video below for an in depth discussion.
Discussion of Yin & Yang with Laura Leigh Clarke
The difference between the sexes has been celebrated in song, promoted in fashion, questioned, minimized, and, most recently, ignored. For centuries, the polarities of male and female energies has been the source of much pleasant fraternisation between the sexes as well as a fierce struggle for power that exists to this day. Through an understanding of the flow and balancing of the Yin and Yang within our own nature, we can come to realise that the ultimate power has been inside each of us all along, and by seeing the true power in BOTH Yin and Yang and the differences between male and female energies, we can, at long last, reclaim our birthright as complete and powerful beings.
NOBODY WANTS TO BE THE GIRL ANYMORE: Rediscovering the Power of the Female Yin is a great tool in examining the nature of relationships and how imbalances occur. Understanding where the imbalances are can help anyone see, in all their relationships, from a trying spouse to those difficult teens, that there is a new way to view the situation and a new approach to solving the problem. NOBODY WANTS TO BE THE GIRL ANYMORE is also a study in the Yin-Yang of relationships and development of characters for writers and screenwriters. The understanding of the balance of these two polarities can make the difference between a superficial understanding or mere character behaviour and an in-depth knowledge of true-to-life experience and character motivation.
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