How Women Trade Sovereignty for Victimhood

Until we women claim our own direct relationship with eros, we will continue to draw from an authority outside of ourselves. Until then, sovereignty remains largely theoretical.

The injunction to know thyself has been replaced with a command to monitor the environment, track injury, anticipate offense, decode threat, and remain in a posture of perpetual response.

In such a state, there is no real self-possession. There is compliance or performance, but very little of the sovereign center from which a woman could meet life directly and shape it. And so a disastrous trade has taken place. Women have traded sovereignty for victimhood.

Victimhood has become a counterfeit form of identity because it offers immediate returns. It relieves a woman of the harder labor of becoming internally sourced. The cost, though, is staggering.

The moment a woman organizes herself around an outside force, she begins surrendering the very faculty that would make her free. She may gain short-term social currency, but she loses access to the deeper wealth of self-determination.This is part of what has made the modern feminine condition so volatile.

We say we want freedom, yet often reject the demands of freedom. Freedom requires contact with one’s own desire, one’s own appetite, one’s own capacity to choose and to create. were women’s efforts employed instead into the cultivation of her erotic power, not only her world but the world would be healed.

For it is her absence, her void, her vacancy that is the cause of the horrors we witness.Taken on as vocation, it becomes the literal salvation of the world. Nothing less than woman’s awakening is required. For the electricity to flow that would illuminate reality and chase out the darkness of ignorance, we would need a world of autonomous, connectable women.