Girlhood and Wildness

The careless cruelty of young boys is well known. The way they'll torture small creatures and children, destroy property, and disregard feelings. Less known and better hidden is the wildly cruel empathy of young girls, who would tear those boys limb from limb for daring to touch a fly.
Some little girls have wonderful and terrible urges to destroy and hunt and commit arson.
They are, of course, not ladylike or legal.
Which is why they are still suppressed, even in our day and age of women's empowerment.
In my opinion, those urges; Artemisian feelings of rage and power and destruction, are natural and must be channeled productively.
The wildest, most vindictive young girls can make the most graceful, passionate women. I've seen it. Just as Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was also goddess of the moon, if girls are able to express their anger and fierceness in their youth, that energy can be shaped into the vital force of a feminine woman who carries in her the very spirit of the wild.

We live in a society where girls are encouraged and pressured into the sandals and reddened lips of Aphrodite while they should still be the wide-eyed, barefoot sisters of Artemis.
This is not only immoral, but dangerous. Girls are romantic and often desirous of relationships, but they also have a longing for the wide horizon, for the rising sun, and for running with deer and wolves, and crouching unharmed and dirty beneath forest fires.
The lords of commerce should not attempt to replace girls' untamed desire for wildness with a tame and unfulfilling desire to be attractive to men and to compete within society.

Be cautious, men who would exploit the beauty of young girls. When Actaeon saw Artemis unrobed and bathing in the forest, she warned him to keep silence. Her wild beauty was not his to partake of or share. Even one word ...
He disobeyed, and turned into a stag and was torn into pieces by his own hounds. Only one word to make others aware of the secrets of the virgin goddess, and death was unavoidable.
Societal death is unavoidable, if the wild instincts of young girls are suppressed into the containers of relationships, sexuality, and motherhood.

It is not destructive for young girls to be wild, to be angry, to be annoying and frustrated and fearsome and very much in pain. To be alive and young is to be full of joy and fire and rage, and to need to scream sometimes with the tearing grief and heartbreak of existence and discovery.
Once womanhood begins, it is not destructive for girls to learn how to be ladylike and unexpectedly beautiful and full of quiet grace. That will come in time. Aphrodite must have her due.
But so must Artemis.

I am saying that no one should remove young nymphs from the hunt of Artemis too soon. Girls should grow into beauty and grace and sensuality, not be uncomfortably forced into something in which they do not yet fit.

Girls are not perfect little paragons of budding womanhood, but neither are they fearless leaders of revolutions. They're somewhere in between.
The feminine is chaotic, and girls are the very embodiment of chaos.
That should not be crushed, or even disguised.