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cjsmith ([personal profile] cjsmith) wrote2021-10-05 05:34 pm

About respecting your own needs

“The Crane Wife” is a story from Japanese folklore. I found a copy in the reserve’s gift shop among the baseball caps and bumper stickers that said GIVE A WHOOP. In the story, there is a crane who tricks a man into thinking she is a woman so she can marry him. She loves him, but knows that he will not love her if she is a crane so she spends every night plucking out all of her feathers with her beak. She hopes that he will not see what she really is: a bird who must be cared for, a bird capable of flight, a creature, with creature needs. Every morning, the crane-wife is exhausted, but she is a woman again. To keep becoming a woman is so much self-erasing work. She never sleeps. She plucks out all her feathers, one by one.


https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-10-06 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
*shudders*

I have a much cheerfuller Crane WIfe to tell you about in exchange:

https://naryrising.tumblr.com/post/664210796426969088
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[personal profile] hitchhiker 2021-10-06 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
she did, and that makes a big difference! but still, it's sad the choices women get subjected to.
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-10-07 03:13 am (UTC)(link)

yay! :D