Notes from Bali, on Women
I thought manipulation was an unhealthy masculine energy.
Strategic, calculated, moving pieces around a board. It seemed to fit. Masculine energy operates through action and outcome. It shapes circumstances. So manipulation, with all its orchestration, felt like it belonged there.
And feminine energy, by contrast, is honest. Vulnerable. Open. It asks for what it needs directly, trusting that showing up as itself is enough. Manipulation felt like the opposite of that. So masculine by default, right?
But then I reconsidered.
Because toxic femininity isn’t masculine. It isn’t strategic confidence either.
It’s something else entirely.
The “shadow” feminine.
A Parade with Demons at Bali’s Ogoh-Ogoh Fest
The Ogoh-Ogoh parade happens right before Nyepi, the Day of Silence, which is symbolic to burning and amputating evil off the face of the earth.
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