So no matter your weight, age, position in society, waggle that midriff around in a sexy way! And even *you* can feel, even if you don’t look it, like an attractive cute 12 year old.

I agree finding feminine friends is nice, just like having any nice female friends is nice. I’m feminine – because I have a naturally squeaky soft voice and feminine, weak movements. Not something I can help. I only hate when femininity is preached as radical feminism and something to be enjoyed as a cult movement to combat the patriarchy.

I know why women jump on super- extreme feminine rituals – being overly obsesssed with fashion, SATC style. Women try to be comfortable in skin the patriarchy gives them while getting into a comfort zone.

Being observant, I’d say my friends try to combat the patriarchy by being super- girly, recently developing a passion for everything Disney and boy bands. I can see why they do it. And it’s one of the few ways we can seem to be making an active defence – saying we LOVE being women, men are stupid and would never be able to like things like Disney. We like pink, and men won’t be able to.

But anyone here will tell you why being uber feminine (naturally this is fine) to make a point has men laughing, and other girls joining in to say how much they also hate women – ‘cos all they talk about is ‘make up, boys and shopping”. It plays right into p’s hands. And it’s unnatural. Any way we’re forced to be unnatural to fight isn’t a way of fighting.

Belly dance (roll your eyes if you must) empowerfulizes (I love that word) all the gals in my dance troupe, because we represent a substantial diversity in body forms and all do pretty well at being graceful and beautiful when we dance. Tall, short, slender, wide, curvy, not-so-curvy, we’re all amazingly cute in our way. It has really helped me with my own body-image acceptance. We dance, usually in plain yoga-wear, for ourselves and other, mostly female, dance enthusiasts, although when we wear the fancy sparkly costumes for actual performances we are the epitome of feminine excess. It’s kind of fun doing the girl-drag, knowing it’s all pretend. Any men in our lives hardly come to our dance shows after the 3rd or 4th time — maybe they’re just not interested if it’s not all about them.

The other place I find fun in a primarily all-women environment is bicycling. We have an all-girl bike club, and do mostly trail rides (mountain biking). Some of us do endurance racing, downhill and stunt riding. We often wear the spandex, but it’s functional athletic wear appropriate to the sport. We are embodied creatures, and our muscles and lithe bodies are reflections of our power and the means of expressing our energy. Guys in the other bike clubs joke about trying to join us or merge clubs, but they treat us with a certain level of respect because we’re self-sufficient and able to perform at a high level in their sport on their turf. Mostly we just ride by ourselves and have fun on our own, no men required, although, you know, male bikers are really not such a bad bunch, and they do have nice tight buns!

I think all women live their true, fun selves as hermits, only to make a dark comment now and again about the patriarchy. Men want our true selves to be hidden – they don’t want people to see women as fun. A woman without any visible traits of being beaten down by the patriarchy is a threat – because in her he sees undeniably an equal creature, his superior. Mens’ tricks have worked so well the world has yet to see what a true woman looks like.

I also greatly hate the world because of how it downplays the effect of sexism on women. I can see the psychological torment in even the boldest, most ridiculous female tools of the P. Yet everyone still laughs about the irony. We’re being bludgeoned, value scraped away in almost everything we look at – and people out there are still contemplating whether it’s for luls or not.

As of 2010/05/04 0645 GMT, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boobquake says:
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So, it worked just fine for guys with cell phones, who were noble enough to show support for the feminist cause, and record the historic moment on behalf of all mankind.

btw, what are they saying about how boobquake worked?