Have you been affected by the denigration of the feminine??

Are you a female that believes your career or any other head-driven acquisition is the reason why you can't stay home and look after your baby?? This is one example of money being made more important than heart's desires, Masculine more important than Feminine, the heart gets pushed down and told to shut up at the expense of personal happiness and the child's experience of a 'proper' childhood.

Are you affected by today's patriarchal society? Does your actions say that you are too afraid to embrace your femininity? Take this short quiz and find out!

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. You feel guilty when you rest
Yes
No
4. You apologize for crying or showing upset emotion
Yes
No
5. In relationships, you bottle up your feelings
Yes
No
6. You have trouble asking for help or asking for something you want or need
Yes
No
7. You're always in a rush
Yes
No
8. How you look takes up more of your attention than how you feel - e.g. how a relationship or job looks to people is more important than how it makes you feel inside.
Yes
No
9. You tell yourself or others to get over it when depressed or scared or feeling any other negative emotion
Yes
No
10. You regularly take prescription drugs such as pain killers and anti-depressants
Yes
No
11. You regularly take alcohol or drugs to give you a lift
Yes
No
12. Your work makes you feel more valid than raising your children does - e.g. how some people try and convince you its of less importance
Yes
No
13. When asked the proverbial question What do you do? you say Ummm, just a stay at home mum and feel you need to justify your existence in some other way.
Yes
No
14. You don't listen to how you feel when it comes to raising your child, instead you take what doctors, and books say as gospel
Yes
No
15. You tell your boy not to cry
Yes
No
16. You are so disconnected from your body and needs you look after everyone else before yourself, which usually means you have nothing left to give. You are in a constant state of either burn-out or denial of how empty you really feel
Yes
No
17. You try to look constantly happy for everyone else's benefit, which leads to denial of your needs and any issues that come up for you. You invalidate your own negative feelings as useless or dangerous to the harmony of the home, instead of seeing them as messengers that something isn't right for you, something that needs your attention
Yes
No
18. You put your dreams on hold to support your man's dreams and ambitions
Yes
No

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