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'It's a pure product of capitalism': Why the concept of the 'sacred feminine' doesn't liberate women

2022-09-07T11:18:18.127Z


SURVEY - Lithotherapy, yoni egg ritual, rebozo… The range of offers for this “post-New Age” concept is very wide. Its dilution in the sphere of personal development makes it very commercial.


Blanche Gardin has been suffering from digestive problems for five years.

A naturopath ends up pinpointing her problem: laughing at herself embitters her.

Decision is made to take a “

path of light

”.

The actress will no longer make jokes, will reconnect with her body and, through it, with nature.

The series

The Best Version of Myself

broadcast in 2021 on Canal + allowed the general public to know the concept of “sacred feminine”.

Blanche Gardin - or rather her fictional alter ego - organizes circles of women from which a male dog is excluded, participates in a “

collective meditation on cancer of the uterus.

And confesses: “

When I was little, I thought I was a boy because I couldn't admit that I was a witch.

It was too powerful.

»

For anyone who discovered the notion this way, it was hard not to find it hilarious.

And ridiculous.

On Facebook, Rosie, an organizer of "women's circles", was annoyed with the treatment: "

I find it a shame that with such notoriety, we come to break the little space where we welcome each other as we is despite our conditioning and the individuality advocated by capitalism.

»

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Source: lefigaro

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