Leonard Shlain (RIP), in his book The Alphabet versus the Goddess, highlights how visual beauty is always the first aspect of the feminine (right-brain) to be stripped by the masculine -- not the healthy masculine -- when a society becomes obsessed with its left-brain talents. Women are covered or shamed for their very sensuality. Art is destroyed. Music is banned. The list goes on. He points to the Spanish Inquisition, Witch hunts, the Greco-Roman reform of their religion to brutally remove the female as the bearers of life and today's main patriarchal religions that have also removed women as bearers of life.

If you're paying attention, today the term "motherhood" offends. Any enjoyment of physical beauty offends -- disguised as offence taken by society's narrow definition of beauty. To attribute femininity largely to women also offends. And yet, we see that the feminine is rising again, regardless…