Women who make the world a little more Feminine: pt 6...egg cracking ...and the real message of wicked.

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there's a progression to it....the influence of a Dominatrix's personality draws you into Her orbit....you learn that you can't say no to Her....more importantly you discover 'don't' want to say no....

like a talented sculptor She begins to mold you....pulling you deeper into a world She's creating for you....manifesting Her vision for you...of a different life...of a better life...of a gurl's life....

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when you feel calm and contented...you'll understand the former male aggression has been replaced with a softer girlish manner...a gentle yielding feminine nature if you will.....

i learned something new....it's a thing...the LGBTQ community calls it ...'cracking the egg'.....

www.them.us

Slang for a trans person who has yet to come into themselves, the exact origins of “egg” are a mystery.

'Chances are if you’re trans and online — or just looking at trans content for some reason — you may have encountered the term “egg.” No, not the one that refers to the boiled or scrambled variety. Within trans and gender nonconforming circles, egg refers to a trans person who has yet to realize their own identity.'

All across TikTok, trans folks are sharing pictures from before and after their “egg” cracked, set to music from I Saw The TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun’s critically-acclaimed 2024 film about teen dysphoria and coming into your transness. While its jump in popularity across TikTok has reinvigorated conversations about the term, the trans use of “egg” isn’t new.

Popping up around the mid-2010s, “egg” became shorthand online lingo to refer to a trans person who has yet to realize or accept they are trans, or “crack their shell,” so to speak. The metaphor is simple: like an egg, a trans person has to break through their exterior wall with a journey of self-discovery and acceptance before they come into their transness.

gurls who've cracked the egg...

www.gendergp.com

Being an MTF trans woman & transitioning after 40 is hard, but it doesn't have to be. From self-medding to private care, Victoria tells all.

My name is Victoria. I’m 40-something years old, and this is my story about my MTF transition after 40.

While the journey to my true self wasn’t easy, the end result proved to be well worth it. My Struggles and the Challenges I Had to Face

• “You’re Not Trans Enough”

above ....Victoria spoke of challenges.... here are a couple of examples...

www.thepinknews.com

A group of trans activists held a fierce dance party protest in the US Capitol bathrooms following a Republican ban.

msmagazine.com

'I’m here to stand up for my kid,” Brian Williams told me outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 4. Williams and his wife Samantha have been fighting for their daughter—known as L.W. in the legal papers the ACLU filed to challenge Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors—for years. Though difficult to sit through, the two-plus hours of argument in United States v. Skrmetti—a challenge by trans youth, their families, the ACLU, Lambda Legal and the Biden administration to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors—was a nearly perfect distillation of this moment in our gender politics.

they are an example of how the patriarchy has systematically continued to deny that sexual orientation is on a spectrum...and not binary ...

a saavy recogniton from Ms. Magazine points out the subtle Feminist message of the play/movie 'Wicked'....

msmagazine.com

In Wicked, there are many parallels to our own universe: the rise of fascism in Oz; the vilification of a powerful woman (whose laugh some incidentally described as a “cackle”) concerned about the well-being of the most marginalized among us; a media enabling propaganda to villainize said powerful woman and prop up an empty shell of a man specializing in elaborate cons; and the failure of solidarity between women. Part 1 ends with Elphaba’s ostracism from Oz, but the cinematic pan of her ascension in the sky looks less like tragedy and more like triumph. In times that require moral

Most moviegoers who went to the box-office hit Wicked can pinpoint the moment in the show-stopping tune “Defying Gravity” that sent chills down their spine. Once Cynthia Erivo, in her career-defining role as Elphaba, famed Wicked Witch of the West, belts out, “It’s meeeeeee!”—which introduces the bridge to the song—her vocals combined with the movie’s special effects have quite literally lifted us to a higher plane: sonically, visually, even spiritually.

Basking in her newfound powers to “defy gravity” when she uses her magic to fly on her broomstick, Elphaba triumphantly declares: “And if I’m flying solo, at least I’m flying free … And nobody in all of Oz / no wizard that there is or was / is ever gonna bring meeeee down!”

this anthem resonated so strongly, my movie audience applauded at the end, and “Defying Gravity” is currently rising on the pop music charts, standing at number 1 on U.S. iTunes. Co-starring Erivo and pop singer Ariana Grande, the film came just in time to kick off the holiday season and to provide escapism from a contentious and politically divisive presidential election that concluded earlier in the month.

(below is the keen observation that exposes the patriarchal thinking of 'the wizard of oz.)

Perhaps it is precisely against this political backdrop why Wicked has become so popular. There are many parallels to our own universe:

x) the rise of fascism in Oz;

x)the vilification of a powerful woman (whose laugh some incidentally described as a “cackle”) concerned about the well-being of the most marginalized among us;

x) a media enabling propaganda to villainize said powerful woman and prop up an empty shell of a man specializing in elaborate cons;

it is the 1939 movie, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale whisked away by a tornado to the magical land of Oz, that is etched into our collective memory—replete with the immortalization of her nemesis, the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West, played by Margaret Hamilton.

the Wicked Witch is so memorable, she stands at number 4 of the American Film Institute’s Top Movie Villains of All Time, only topped by Darth Vader and the serial killers Norman Bates and Hannibal Lector. Perhaps it’s no mere coincidence that this witch is one of six women in the Top 10 list, compared to only two women who topped the AFI’s Top 10 Movie Heroes list, suggesting that women are uniquely positioned as villains, nemeses, outsiders and marginalized others in the cultural imagination.

Indeed, between the 14th and 17th centuries, witches—who were accused of Satanic worship and harnessing supernatural powers through pacts with the devil—were routinely burned at the stake throughout Europe. The majority of those accused were women (somewhere between 75 to 85 percent of the victims). Women targeted as witches presented a threat to their society in one form or another: as property owners or widows, unmarried or queer women, or outspoken wives and adulteresses.

---The hatred of the witch found a corollary in hatred of women—powerful women specifically. It is no wonder the “witch” became a subversive symbol for many a feminist and has even inspired modern-day reclamations of the wicca religion.

While the character of the Wicked Witch of the West continues in the long tradition of vilifying powerful women, Maguire’s novel sought to rewrite her story, giving this demonized figure a name—Elphaba (based on the initials of L. Frank Baum)—and a moral compass.

Part 1 ends with Elphaba’s ostracism from Oz, but the cinematic pan of her ascension in the sky looks less like tragedy and more like triumph. In times that require moral clarity, a perpetual outsider coming to self-actualization, freed from systems of power because she’s found her own, highlights that we have to look to different skies and different lenses to find a new kind of heroism.

peace, alyssa

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