Gender & Culture

[Gemini Cricket]

I think that is such a crock. Just look in nature, female animals are usually bigger and more powerful... like in ant and bee colonies. In fact, in the insect world, males are often food after they bang their wives.



I like being a gay guy. I feel like I have the best of both sexes in me. Male tools and female intuition.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I like being a gay guy. I feel like I have the best of both sexes in me. Male tools and female intuition.

In a related way, I like being on a sort of intermediary step in my reincarnational cycle between incarnations as male and subsequent incarnations as female.

The preferences alphabassetgrrl alluded to that are prevelent in our language and thankfully getting slightly less prevelent in society are actually attributes of maleness which are, for the most part, negatives.

I am blessed to have very many feminine attributes (though - as I discussed with Gemini Cricket at the Cemetary last weekend - it was a bit confusing to me in my young adolescence).

Strength, Power, um, what else were those masculine qualities deemed positive? How about violence, greed, disloyalty, immaturity, stubborness, slovinliness, pride, lust, glutony and a few more deadly sins?


Feminine attributes are, despite the bias of our language perpetuated for centuries by patriarchal societies, much more desireable and beneficial to all society.


If my hunch is right, this is my last incarnation as a boy. I will miss the "tools" and some of the other perks ... but I'll be glad to be a girl going foward. A bunch of inconvenience is definitely worth the higher level of consciousness.



I dunno if that can be boiled down to a "topic," but whateva.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I like being a gay guy. I feel like I have the best of both sexes in me. Male tools and female intuition.

Actually, we all have masculine and feminine aspects, it is just that Western society squishes the feminine from men and the masculine from females. When one realizes this and works to get both sides in balance, it is amazing what can be accomplished.

This is something that Susan and I both work on and we sometimes joke how we have swung past each other: there are many ways where she is more masculine and I am more feminine. No, this isn't just about sex; it is/can be played out in all parts of life.

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

This is something that Susan and I both work on and we sometimes joke how we have swung past each other: there are many ways where she is more masculine and I am more feminine. No, this isn't just about sex; it is/can be played out in all parts of life.

Yeah, I do almost all the cooking and some of the cleaning around here...