Women’s Empowerment: Why you don’t need it.
Today, I wanted to make a post about one of THE most common motifs in the womens self defense classes /martial arts industry – Women’s Empowerment. It’s a nice enough message, and I can see the sincerity in wanting to help women become capable of protecting themselves – and as a result, become empowered. As a member of the female community, my major issue with this marketing angle is that it suggests women are lacking a quality of character which they can only gain through the type of training being offered. NEWS FLASH LADIES!! You. Are. Already. Empowered. I am not a feminist and don’t subscribe to any political labels, but as a person who happens to have female biology, I have NEVER identified as being unempowered, even when I felt at my lowest. I wasn’t someone who necessarily needed to be empowered. In hindsight, what I needed was to feel my power, to find the evidence of it, to reconnect/connect to it. This might be semantics to some, but in my opinion, it drastically ...