from self-esteem to sex-esteem
lessons from the gender evolution of 'the girls'
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A Sex-Esteem Lesson about Self-Esteem
The self-esteem lesson about affirmation
of the self
made a world of sense to us.
We tried it with some good results,
but it was not enough for us
for we were simply affirming
the wife and mother roles
we had been assigned,
and to which we had agreed.
It was the inner-gender self
that cried out
for womanly affirmation—
the kind that would free the spirit
to seek a higher place in the universe.
No more runner-ups;
no more second place.
Sex-esteem—
that was the missing piece
of the self-esteem puzzle
for the gender of the girls.
Sex-Esteem and the Heritage Lesson
For many generations
the heritage that Mothers passed on to their daughters
was one of a less-worthy gender value,
for we could not pass on to them a gender worth
greater than our own.
But things have changed
for we have evolved to a higher level.
Thanks to Mother Nature’s evolution revolution
we have learned life-changing lessons
about the sex-esteem of the girls.
We cannot go back
or have it taken away
because evolution is change that is earned
and earned change marches to its own beat—
marching forward, never backwards.
We now have a rich legacy to leave our daughters
beginning with a proud and worthy sex-esteem heritage.
We have only to call it by its name—
"sex-esteem".
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About the Book
The evolution of women over the last 150 years has been so revolutionary that the value place on the gender of ‘the girls’—their "sex-esteem"—has gone up, way up. This higher-level regard for the female gender began as a search for self-esteem but at some point became so gender-specific that it outgrew that label. The changes have been earned through the process of evolution, not legislated through actions such as the hoped for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment; they cannot, therefore, be taken away.
Gender-altering, life-changing sex-esteem lessons have been learned and they continue to propel Woman forward. It is time to share those lessons and to celebrate them for they are changing the destiny of the female creature. A part of the celebration must focus on and identify the unfinished gender-based lessons on which work remains to be done.
The sex-esteem lessons—those learned and those that remain unfinished—are simply presented in a genre the author calls "sound-bite essays’. Each conveys a sex-esteem lesson that will trigger very personal snapshot thoughts for each reader; each lends itself to a "thought (or lesson or essay) for the day" approach, making it doable reading for even the busiest woman.
The ‘sex-esteem’ concept was introduced by this author at the "International Conference on the Gender of the Girls" in Montreal some years ago and at a "Women in Leadership Conference" in St. Louis about the same time. fromself-esteem to sex-esteem: lessons from the gender evolution of ‘the girls’ was developed based on many years of work with women, children and families. The author, a social worker, is currently the coordinator of a nationally recognized welfare-to-work program.
About the Author
The ‘sex-esteem’ concept was introduced by this author at the "International Conference on the Gender of the Girls" in Montreal some years ago and at a "Women in Leadership Conference" in St. Louis about the same time. fromself-esteem to sex-esteem: lessons from the gender evolution of ‘the girls’ was developed based on many years of work with women, children and families. The author, a social worker, is currently the coordinator of a nationally recognized welfare-to-work program. She has spent many years as an educator and trainer in organizations such as The Child Welfare Institute at Washington University; the Missouri Division of Family Services; the Civil Service Commission; and Project Match.