Quick Question
November 5th, 2007 at 09:01pm Manchild
During the final editing phase of my book, Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness, a question arose that I thought insightful, critically thinking bloggers like you would best be able to answer.
When does a “girl” become a “woman?”
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1. Bola Oluyemi | November 21st, 2007 at 9:30 am
Going by biology,at puberty
Going by the scirpture,at marriage
Going by the circular world,when a girl first meet a man(sexually)
That’s my understanding of it,Manchild,where have you been?
2. middleXeast | November 26th, 2007 at 3:26 am
There is no such a thing as a woman, or girl for that matter, not if a woman is anything like what we, at least have supposed. There is therefore no answer to the question “When does a “girl” become a “woman?”
(The strawberry is riped in the time when the grape has no idea about it.)
The drama of an individual human life, or of a female, is not one in which a preexistent goal is triumphantly reached or tragically not reached. Neither a constant external reality nor an unfailing interior source of inspiration forms a background for such dramas.
Instead, to see one’s life, or the life of a fellow female, as a dramatic narrative is to see it as a process of Nietzschean self-overcoming. The paradigm of such a narrative is not the life of the girl who claims that there is woman out there (or in here) to be discovered, but rather the life of the genius female who can say of the relevant portion of the past, “Thus I willed it,” because she has found a way to describe that past which the past never knew, and thereby found a self to be which her mother and grandmothers never knew was possible.
3. Marvalus | November 28th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
I don’t understand the comment left by middleXeast…but Manchild, I left a response to your question on my blog…I hope you drop by to read it…
4. prinpronisse | December 28th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
I believe a girl becomes a woman when she makes her first unsupported decision. When she doesn’t ask for any help and knows her own mind well enough to make that decision and stand by it whatever the consequences.
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