09/17/2026
Women have been taught capability.
Carry it. Manage it. Produce. Perform. Keep everything moving.
And we made that version of womanhood so unbearable that of course women wanted out.
But look carefully at what we can be funnelled into next.
We move from overriding every feeling to giving every feeling authority. From endure everything to anything that feels difficult must be wrong.
Two extremes that appear to oppose each other while potentially producing the same harm.
Both can keep us asleep.
One disconnects us from ourselves by teaching us to override everything.
The other can disconnect us from ourselves by teaching us to examine nothing beyond how something feels.
And that should concern us.
Because a woman taught to distrust discomfort can slowly lose the ability to distinguish danger from development, harm from a hard conversation, attack from accountability, punishment from discipline, oppression from pressure.
And while we are busy analysing how everything makes us feel, we can stop asking the question that takes us behind the veil:
What is this building in me?
Because if every difficult feeling becomes something to escape, no one has to physically take our power from us.
We can be taught to retreat from the places where we would have discovered it ourselves.
That is the veil I want women looking behind.
Not less feeling. Not more endurance.
Question both extremes.
Because sometimes what looks like the opposite message is simply another road to the same outcome.
