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Our patriarchal society demands that women strive to achieve
yet maintain a form that resembles a young girl. Our bodies must look young,
wrinkle, and blemish-free, a blank slate for a man to claim.
Instead of accepting women as they are, most men and even some
women, scrutinize and discard them as never good enough, never young enough, and never beautiful enough. And the more women
strive to conform, the more they give up control.
Do strong, opinionated women intimidate weak, insecure men? Yes, I still see it when I talk to some over sixty-ish men, and even younger.
When instead of a mature woman, a 35-year-old actress is playing the role of the mother of a 30-year-old man in movies, what does it teach young teenagers? It teaches them to judge women by their looks alone. When people comment on older women’s posts on social sites, sadly, most of the comments are about how they look and not about what they stand for or achieve.
Female youth is prized in our culture because it doesn't
represent too much of a threat. Insecure men are intimidated by strong, wise, mature women. Women are trained into thinking there is something
fundamentally wrong with getting older and are coerced into spending money,
energy, and power investing in 'slowing the signs of aging'.
The truth is that as women grow and mature, they gain wisdom
and they're more of a force to be reckoned with. They see more, know more, feel
more, and they put up with a lot less bullshit.
Just think about what would happen if all the women in the world
started loving themselves even more with every year that passed, including each
fat roll and wrinkle they gain as they move forward in time. Can you imagine
how much more secure and powerful women would become as they grow older?
Although a cat's sense of smell is not as good as a dogs' but it's far better than a human's. Like dogs, cats use their sense of smell to gather information, including information about us.
When your cat sniffs your face and breath, they're simply memorizing your scent. They recognize your scent and find it comforting.
But why are they doing it every day or even a few times a day?
Cats rely heavily on their strong sense of smell to give them information about food, prey, and their general surroundings. Sniffing you often tells them a lot about your diet, the cosmetic and personal care products you're using, and your unique skin chemistry. Memorizing your scent also helps them to build trust and familiarity, so let your cat sniff away!
Cats have an organ at the roof of their mouths behind their front teeth called the vomeronasal organ, or Jacobson's organ. When your cat takes a sniff and leaves its mouth open for a few seconds, it's actually drawing air into the mouth and up into the Jacobson's organ.
Also, when your cat makes a strange face when smelling your face, hand or feet, it is because it smelled something interesting and is drawing the scent into the Jacobson's organ to get a better smell.
Author of epic fantasy, alternate
history, sweet romance, romantic suspense, dystopian and cozy mystery novels,
short stories, as well as YA and children’s books
