first flight

I was just hitting my one year mark. But I was not told that I was weak then. So I could climb a ladder to a window sill which was on the second floor, may be about 20 feet from the ground. I just sat there looking at the world, while there was a commotion around me from everyone to find me.

Those who are parents know that little girls are as strong as boys. My three year old could beat a five year old boy, and snatch his toy, and the boy would cry and go to his mama for help. That she was shorter than him did not matter. But I was the one who was worried because no one would like to play with her, as she would end up hurting kids and bossing them around. I tamed her to a point that she would come back crying to me if someone had beaten her, by the time she was five. I had made a perfect child out of her!!!

World history abounds with examples of women warriors, amazons, and even violent women. The British empire under the rule of queens was the most aggresive empires of all times. The women in villages and farms do as much heavy work as men, and even more at times.

So why do women in daily life feel they are not physically strong. Because our cultures tells them that any activity which will make them use their muscles, will make them grow them and they will look ugly, or may damage their reproductive systems. No one knows the deep meaning behind this well meaning myth, and the impact it has on women's bodies.

Even a Lion if does not use his muscles for a few days, becomes uncapable of catching his own prey, as happens in the Zoos most of the times.