09-27-2006, 08:09 PM
XX YY
Always there is the mother
the lover
the sister
the daughter
the woman
if you are a man
you will not forget who
stands before you
if you are a woman
remember you are
all this and more !!!
We start as woman (a medical fact), and then something strange suddenly happens, and change occurs. Somewhere along the line the script got changed but no one read the rewrite until it was too late. The female was sometimes replaced by an XY and this slowly became the par for the course. The drive of every man stems from this fact.
What is a Y, but an X with one leg knocked off, and only one to maintain balance and needs the XX for support.
Think about it.
Once there was a matriarchy. Men felt insignificant within it because they had no power. As a result, the male was overwhelmed with the feminine spirit of the earth and endeavoured as much as possible to take power from the mother, the sister, the woman.
Thus the patriarchal reality became the norm in the world. When the male gods reigned supreme over the Triple Goddess they went out of their way to denigrate the feminine spirit (even though without the mother they wouldn't exist and without the sister and lover they wouldn't survive). Women have assisted this process by giving way to male dominance (mothers seek to foist power in their sons and to take it away from there daughters - in a way to save them the pain of banging there heads against a brick wall).
When patriarchy dominated the fraternal existence before it, men's power went to their heads. Feeling full of their male spirit, which was manifested in the denial of the feminine spirit both within and without. This continual denial of the softer more sensitive side in men has led to a crippling and blinding of the inner female (anima). When men reached outside for feminine companionship they continued to treat the outer woman with the same distain as they treated their inner woman. Any time the woman tried to stand up to the man, allowing her inner man (animus) to strive to protect her from the male onslaught, she was and is beaten down figuratively or physically/emotionally to the point of overwhelming and destroying her existence - unless she chooses to back down and beg continued companionship, regardless of what has gone down before.
Sinead O'conner once recorded that "the opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity". Germaine Greer said it first but it's easier to take from Sinead.
If we can learn to walk together as equals rather than seeing it all as a battle of wills to see who is the strongest (women can handle more pain than any man and they live longer) then we may begin to truly understand what we are doing here on this planet, rather that scoring points on side issues.
The planet and everything in it suffers as a result of the battle between the self-ordained guardians and the gardeners who fight over who should go and the way it should grow.
In the bee and the ant communities everyone starts as a female and only a few are changed to males to service the queen. The problem in the human community is that the males somehow have taken power, and maintain their power by convincing all the females they could be queens and thus creating dissention in the whole hive/colony, with every female battling with every other so that they can't see that the male is controlling the whole situation. The workers, the warriors and the nursery sitters forget the task before them and begin to compete with each other as queens. Why they allowed so many drones to be created in the first place is a true mystery.
Because we have changed the parameters we used to work with, we must learn the new parameters sooner rather than later. We need to ask why we are what we are becoming, otherwise we continue to work within the old way- even though we know this doesn't work anymore. Just because the situation feels familiar in one way or the other, it doesn't mean we can't approach the whole situation in a new way - one that may seem contrary to what we want.
As a male who seeks to understand the totality of experience I continue to try to understand why my other would have pain in their lives. Why do women choose to take on pure sh*t in their lives in order that they may seem to be real? Why can't we dance with each other to each others music, without worrying who is playing the dance we play?
In the end both sides/will play the game of underdog if the game is good enough. The problem is when the game pales! It is not simple convenience and complicity which bring us together. We are here for each other but not purely for the others enjoyment. We come together to understand the totality of self. If we can come to understand each other we will bring peace to this earth because we will not be vying for attention because "we are the truth".
Men have a creative spirit and imagine that they create the world, but women are creative beings, but they have most of the baggage that this creation entails - they cannot just shrug their shoulders and say "well, I did my best", and even if they do say it, they know in their heart that isn't true. If men can understand that life asks of us, that it wishes that we might dance with discretion and grace rather than overpowering our polarity, then they will be able to create a more harmonious environment in which humanity can dance. Women need to accept that men are slow on the uptake. It is all to do with the fact that men are unstable because they have only three legs instead of four.
Aretha Franklin sings "If you want a do-right all right woman, you've got to be a do right-all night man". What most women want is a friend not another master.
Always there is the mother
the lover
the sister
the daughter
the woman
if you are a man
you will not forget who
stands before you
if you are a woman
remember you are
all this and more !!!
We start as woman (a medical fact), and then something strange suddenly happens, and change occurs. Somewhere along the line the script got changed but no one read the rewrite until it was too late. The female was sometimes replaced by an XY and this slowly became the par for the course. The drive of every man stems from this fact.
What is a Y, but an X with one leg knocked off, and only one to maintain balance and needs the XX for support.
Think about it.
Once there was a matriarchy. Men felt insignificant within it because they had no power. As a result, the male was overwhelmed with the feminine spirit of the earth and endeavoured as much as possible to take power from the mother, the sister, the woman.
Thus the patriarchal reality became the norm in the world. When the male gods reigned supreme over the Triple Goddess they went out of their way to denigrate the feminine spirit (even though without the mother they wouldn't exist and without the sister and lover they wouldn't survive). Women have assisted this process by giving way to male dominance (mothers seek to foist power in their sons and to take it away from there daughters - in a way to save them the pain of banging there heads against a brick wall).
When patriarchy dominated the fraternal existence before it, men's power went to their heads. Feeling full of their male spirit, which was manifested in the denial of the feminine spirit both within and without. This continual denial of the softer more sensitive side in men has led to a crippling and blinding of the inner female (anima). When men reached outside for feminine companionship they continued to treat the outer woman with the same distain as they treated their inner woman. Any time the woman tried to stand up to the man, allowing her inner man (animus) to strive to protect her from the male onslaught, she was and is beaten down figuratively or physically/emotionally to the point of overwhelming and destroying her existence - unless she chooses to back down and beg continued companionship, regardless of what has gone down before.
Sinead O'conner once recorded that "the opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity". Germaine Greer said it first but it's easier to take from Sinead.
If we can learn to walk together as equals rather than seeing it all as a battle of wills to see who is the strongest (women can handle more pain than any man and they live longer) then we may begin to truly understand what we are doing here on this planet, rather that scoring points on side issues.
The planet and everything in it suffers as a result of the battle between the self-ordained guardians and the gardeners who fight over who should go and the way it should grow.
In the bee and the ant communities everyone starts as a female and only a few are changed to males to service the queen. The problem in the human community is that the males somehow have taken power, and maintain their power by convincing all the females they could be queens and thus creating dissention in the whole hive/colony, with every female battling with every other so that they can't see that the male is controlling the whole situation. The workers, the warriors and the nursery sitters forget the task before them and begin to compete with each other as queens. Why they allowed so many drones to be created in the first place is a true mystery.
Because we have changed the parameters we used to work with, we must learn the new parameters sooner rather than later. We need to ask why we are what we are becoming, otherwise we continue to work within the old way- even though we know this doesn't work anymore. Just because the situation feels familiar in one way or the other, it doesn't mean we can't approach the whole situation in a new way - one that may seem contrary to what we want.
As a male who seeks to understand the totality of experience I continue to try to understand why my other would have pain in their lives. Why do women choose to take on pure sh*t in their lives in order that they may seem to be real? Why can't we dance with each other to each others music, without worrying who is playing the dance we play?
In the end both sides/will play the game of underdog if the game is good enough. The problem is when the game pales! It is not simple convenience and complicity which bring us together. We are here for each other but not purely for the others enjoyment. We come together to understand the totality of self. If we can come to understand each other we will bring peace to this earth because we will not be vying for attention because "we are the truth".
Men have a creative spirit and imagine that they create the world, but women are creative beings, but they have most of the baggage that this creation entails - they cannot just shrug their shoulders and say "well, I did my best", and even if they do say it, they know in their heart that isn't true. If men can understand that life asks of us, that it wishes that we might dance with discretion and grace rather than overpowering our polarity, then they will be able to create a more harmonious environment in which humanity can dance. Women need to accept that men are slow on the uptake. It is all to do with the fact that men are unstable because they have only three legs instead of four.
Aretha Franklin sings "If you want a do-right all right woman, you've got to be a do right-all night man". What most women want is a friend not another master.
