A woman without a man...

Back in the early 70's I had a button with this famous feminist slogan: I have been thinking about that a lot lately as I continue to gather the bits and pieces for my work on women's bodies and more specifically the fat woman's body. It came to me this week that we can speak of "phallic energy" and of "phallocentric" thinking but what is the female equivalent? I turned to Google of course and the best I could find was that really there is not except for maybe "yonic" which doesn't really work. An then there is "seminal" which led me to this: Seminal is durative of the word semen; as in human reproduction, seminal work has gone forth and multiplied much like sperm does if it is successful in merging with an “egg” (or ovum) and conception occurs.Why don’t we use “ovular” in the same way? Ova are the female equivalent to sperm and are just as responsible for the creation of a new being. Although there are many more sperm created in the time it takes for one ovum to move through its cycle, both are responsible for creating new life.We could say that someone has created an ovular idea that then inspires others to go forth and develop other ideas based on that one ovular thought. When I first got married in 1970, the state in which we married did not offer me the option for keeping my "maiden" name, so I had to take his. Of course in those days to not do ...
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs