Out Of Order

When I first heard this statement by Iyanla Vamzant the first thing I thought. " Here is something else I've been saying all the time that is suddenly worthy of a ttelevision show or book". This woman has rose to fame by simply telling people the obvious truth. If you have fourteen people living in your house and you're drinking a fifth of vodka a day. I don't need a degree in mental health to point you in the right direction. I'm not really down with this black women's power movement.  But to each his or her own.

I said "women have to be women regardless how men act. The woman has to be a virtuous woman to avoid no good men If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready". The way to get blacks on your side is give them excuses. Tell them what they should already know.I used the analogy of animals have it right. The female never abandons her role in spite of what the male does. In the animal kingdom females do just fine. I never even saw a homeless rat. Have you ever heard of  female elephants in heat chasing bulls? This might be the hard part for modern women. They wait until they are pursued.

I went back and read what was said. I can see how some people didn't put this together. But in different words we said the same thing.  “We have such a rich culture and in that culture, there are roles and purposes and powers. And we live in a society now where women are commodities, where women are demeaned, diminished, demoralized in ways that we accommodate. And if we really understood who we are as feminine representations of the creator of the universe, some of the things that we experience in life — like crying when the unemployed boo boo leaves us — if we really understood who we are, we wouldn’t be so apt to let other people define us and confine us. We are out of order!”