[Apollia]

Well, it was fun participating. I'm glad I did it, I almost wimped out.

Steve Pavlina wrote in the blog post:

Reading all of these pieces was amazingly eye-opening.

I agree! Quite a well-written and fascinating diversity of perspectives.

I offer a huge “thank you” to everyone who chose to participate.

You're welcome! Thanks again for the inspiration, etc.

The point of articles such as these isn’t to dictate how you’re supposed to live. The point is to offer you different perspectives to consider, so you can make more conscious and deliberate choices for yourself.

Being a man or woman isn’t about blindly following popular gender patterns, nor is it about rejecting such patterns out of hand and rebelliously embracing their opposites. Ultimately you must define what kind of man or woman you will become. This is a choice you must make for yourself as an individual, regardless of what anyone else thinks. What kind of man/woman do you wish to be? Life awaits your answer…

Beautiful... Hard to disagree with that in any way.


Steve Pavlina wrote in a post:

I might incorporate more participation-based topics in the future, especially if people find this post helpful.

Awesome, I look forward to it if you do - whether I am inspired to write another article, or am just a reader next time.


The Wise Turtle wrote:

OK, now switch the word "woman" in the title of each of these, and replace it with the word "human" and we'd have an amazing society of humans who aren't afraid to be both strong and gentle, competitive and collaborative, self-focused and other-focused, when the situation calls for it.

Agreed.

How to Be a Woman at Astroblahhh by Apollia - which gets my prize for most expressive writing

Thanks, I like yours too.