Can Women Share Femininity?

By Shauneez Rigney
@_shauneez_
watermelaninmag.com

​In October of this year Always Ultra, the feminine hygiene brand, made the decision to remove the Venus symbol from their FEMALE products in an attempt to be more inclusive because, well, not only females menstruate now but so do some transgender men. Full disclosure, this article does not aim to be homophobic or transphobic, but it does attempt to dissect and navigate the dark hole that is the reinvention of gender constructs that we have seemed to invent out of thin air. In the midst of all these new gender concepts it always seems like femininity is put under the microscope and forced to be reinvented and more inclusive because, everyone wants to be a woman, and everyone seems to know how to be a woman better than women themselves. So, can women share femininity or perhaps masculinity that needs to be reinvented?

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