I am Woman!

“Woman is an unfinished Man” –Aristotle

“Men look at women as how men want to look at women, and women look at men as how men wanted to look at women.” – Don Amorsolo

Genesis 2:20-23. So the man named all the birds and all the animals, but no one of them was a suitable companion to help him.Then the Lord God made man fall into a deep sleep, and while man is sleeping, He took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh. He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. Then the man said, “At last, here is one of my own kind— Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. ‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of a man.”

The purpose of this article is not to beget a Patriarchal world and uplift men, but rather, to understand what really a woman is. I know things can be realy tough when dealing with us, :)

I came across with these quotations and wondered if these phrases would serve as a vehicle for men to understand what a woman really is. M, has been ranting that he used to read books, articles and stories about women. Watched movies and films that somehow lifted the essence of womanhood. But according to him, instead of freeing himself from the questions that haunt him, it drowned him deeper and deeper. They say that women aren’t so hard to understand---“Sure, you aren’t” he would often blurt out, looking at me like some criminal.

What is it about us women that make men feel and be inconsistent? What is it about us that they cannot harbor? Or are men just simply over-thinking, over-doing or maybe be deficient in something? Yes we are more emotional than men are. That’s why we have a great intuition, and we can feel our way through things, situations, people and even unexpected circumstances.

What really is a Woman? I bet men have been asking themselves this question for more than 100 years now, and still the question haunts them.

M, would often tell me that eavesdropping is his least favorite verb, but when women start to talk about guys, he has had second thought. I would tell him that men are inconsistent, innately polygamous, and stubborn and so on and so forth. And he would often say, "Like duh?! Have you asked our opinion about girls? “Women are from Venus, and Men are from Mars”, and we met here on earth that’s why we cannot understand each other very well…hahaha!

But M, in his all egotisical nature (I am exaggerating sweetie, I love you!), said that there’s one thing he realized about women… Women are easy to please, at least for him. :) He said, you can give them a piece of candy wrapper and still rock their world. Make them feel secure and comfort them by just being there even without uttering a single word and caress them or perhaps tickle them by just looking or smiling at them. Is this weird or not? I'll leave it up to you all to decide. :)

But one of his random questions really made me roll on the floor though while we were having dinner and still arguing on the MALE and FEMALE subject matter:

"But sweetie, I wonder, why can’t we (men) just make you stay and even keep you?"