“A woman was once considered property and still is in some countries. Once upon a time not so long ago women did not have the right to own land or to even vote. Weird how men didn’t want to pretend to be women then…

Being a woman is so much more than just being feminine. A woman is shaped, forged, and molded by the fierce lineage of the women before her. Women by nature are physically weaker than men. Women generally tend to be gentle, kind, caring, and nurturing until someone opposes a threat to her children; or anyone else’s child for that matter. The start of womanhood (The first menstrual cycle) is understood to be both embarrassing and can be quite painful. It’s a right of passage and should not be mocked, nor faked. Only a woman can bring forth new life. Generally speaking that’s when you learn some of life’s greatest gifts come from large amounts of suffering and pain. My grandmother and her mother before her, along with my mother were all real women. It’s really not hard concept to define. I Am A Woman.” — Marinda Vannoy.

I saw so many answers online, including the silent ones, but this particular answer stood out for me.

On the 2nd of June, Elon Musk quoted a video that was over an hour and said, “Parents should please watch this.” As a typical human who has never thought of watching anything above 5 minutes on Twitter, I ignored it.

On the 3rd of June, I saw the video again, but this time from the creator of the video, Matt Walsh, someone I had never heard of. I decided to click because he said the video could not be retweeted, and I was curious. “Why can’t a video be retweeted on Twitter?” I started watching the 1-hour video, and I lost track of time.

What is the video all about, you might ask? It was about a valid question that no one could give a valid answer to, not even a college professor.

The question is, “What is a woman?”

I am a woman, and that question hit me, because I used to think there’s no single answer. Now I know that a woman is an adult female. I also understand that every gender is present in everybody, but we sometimes feed the insignificant one depending on what we digest mentally and digitally. The latter has affected the world in a very negative way.

I know I am a woman because I have the genital qualifications. I menstruate; I have a uterus and a womb; I have the ability to conceive. I am physically weaker than a man. I am emotional by nature, as one would expect. I nurture by nature. I can protect myself and anyone else, but having a man’s protection would mean a lot to me.

I remember when I watched “Legend Of The Seeker.” I wished to be a Confessor so bad. If I had the opportunity to meet the fairy godmother in Cinderella, I would have begged her to make me a Confessor till midnight. Yes, I believed the fairy godmother was real. I believed she existed. I believed in the Cinderella story. I believed Cinderella could talk to rodents. I wished I could talk to one myself. I believed so many fictional stories growing up. I cried and composed a song to God to make me a confessor. I made it a prayer point. I was 10.

Right now, if I get paid to become a confessor, I will definitely give the person a Bombastic side eye. Because I understand that being a Confessor means I have to be with a man against his will. I mean, it was clearly illustrated in the film, but my little innocent brain that needed so much guidance did not care! All she wanted to be was a confessor or a Mordsith. Mordsiths were trained to torture and the good one amongst them was Cara. Even as a good Mordsith she still tortures men to her will. How can anyone in their sane/mature mind want to be all these things?

It is true that a child’s imagination or thought is like space. Full of colors and unimaginable designs and shapes. It is also true that before you can survive in space, you need to be a qualified astronaut, or you may never live to tell people on EARTH how beautiful it is over there. The living planet. The reality.

People on Earth can now visit space because someone who was patient enough to be guided and trained sufficiently went there and came back.

Now, with $250,000 to $500,000, civilians can take suborbital trips (about a fifteen-minute ride to the edge of space and back) or flights to actual orbit at more than $50 million per seat (though typically a longer trip than 15 minutes). This is a lot of money, but at least I know I can visit space when I have it.

Imagine they decided to go to space because they felt like it. No training no guidance, no nothing.

If you are a woman and your goal is to be stronger than a man, you are weak. — Ganiya

What other form of strength do you want to convey that is bigger than having a whole human being inside of you for nine months or more? And sacrificing her body shape for this human being? This body shape is her confidence, and it is just a petal attached to a branch attached to a tree. A woman’s confidence is a big deal. It is also in her body shape.

Although, there’s more to a woman than this, and only her can feel it because she is and was born a WOMAN!

Being able to know what anyone feels without talking to them because of how sharp your instincts are, or the ability to go through monthly pain and looking forward to the next one, because if you don’t experience that monthly visitor, you may be visiting the hospital, is something only a woman can be. Let’s not even talk about the pain you feel just because your breasts want to protrude.

I could go on and on, but only a WOMAN would understand that it is unending.

A man is a man, a woman is a woman. If you are man and you feel like a woman, the question is, what are you feeling?

Article inspired by Matt Walsh.