Comments on: Oh, those silly kids http://www.mahablog.com/2006/06/13/oh-those-silly-kids/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:20:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: pro-woman http://www.mahablog.com/2006/06/13/oh-those-silly-kids/#comment-37776 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:12:07 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/06/13/oh-those-silly-kids/#comment-37776 What's happening is that we were sold a bill of goods which turned out to be not the answer we were looking for. We were told that in order to gain equality with men we needed to deny, more like eradicate, all that is core womanhood. In essence, we bought into the lie that equality equals sameness. The biggest part in this self-destruction is striking down our gift of fertility. This is what makes us WOMAN. This is what sets us apart. This is how we take part in bringing another human being into this world, through our own body. What an awesome reality! Yes, there have been good outcomes over the years in terms of better opportunities for women. But we are our own enemies if we allow women like Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer to shape our feminism. All coming from tragically unhappy families resulting in rejection, detachment, inability to nurture. Their pain is real, but their answer was wrong. Abandoned by their fathers, they turned on men. Abandoned by their mothers, they turned on motherhood. Children were viewed as burdens, liabilities. And our society has paid the price. You cannot break the most important bonds in society, the mother-child bond and the family bond without HUGE ramifications! Let'e embrace our femininity! We ARE and ALWAYS have been equal to men, but we will never be the same! What’s happening is that we were sold a bill of goods which turned out to be not the answer we were looking for. We were told that in order to gain equality with men we needed to deny, more like eradicate, all that is core womanhood. In essence, we bought into the lie that equality equals sameness. The biggest part in this self-destruction is striking down our gift of fertility. This is what makes us WOMAN. This is what sets us apart. This is how we take part in bringing another human being into this world, through our own body. What an awesome reality! Yes, there have been good outcomes over the years in terms of better opportunities for women. But we are our own enemies if we allow women like Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer to shape our feminism. All coming from tragically unhappy families resulting in rejection, detachment, inability to nurture. Their pain is real, but their answer was wrong. Abandoned by their fathers, they turned on men. Abandoned by their mothers, they turned on motherhood. Children were viewed as burdens, liabilities. And our society has paid the price. You cannot break the most important bonds in society, the mother-child bond and the family bond without HUGE ramifications! Let’e embrace our femininity! We ARE and ALWAYS have been equal to men, but we will never be the same!

]]> by: alyosha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/06/13/oh-those-silly-kids/#comment-16812 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:06:51 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/06/13/oh-those-silly-kids/#comment-16812 Feminism isn't dead, it's just paused for a bit. Like your mom, I lived through the great liberal advances of the 1960s (in the privacy of my own thoughts, I call this "the Golden Age of America"). Every social movement is met with reaction, and that's what we're going through now. Despite the efforts of the right, people are not going backwards, at least not for long. And so from your young perspective, it seems like stasis, or even retreat, but this is just a blip in the bigger picture. As a side note, think of all the television commercials you have seen where the woman is smart and the man is a domestic dope. If you look at the themes in advertising, women are not going backwards, despite the way things may look on the surface. Despite the dark times we're in today, yin (female) and yang (male) are coming back into balance, after thousands of years where yang was dominant. At some point thousands of years ago, people traded their fertility goddesses for male gods. They traded tribes for cities. Yang energy gave us social hierarchies, science, writing, western civilization. It also gave us ICBMs, genetically engineered food, acid rain and global corporatism. As a positive force, yang has gone as far as it can in this current age, to the brink of destroying the planet. Yin (feminine) energy is in ascendance, and has been for a few centuries, if you think about it. Yin must rebalance yang to avoid the planetary catastrophes we're now facing. The whole misogynist flap with the right wing taking over America is temporary, unless of course yang, in the guise of fundamentalist governments manages to blow us back to the stone age, which is possible. And so you women have a lot of work to do. Know the arc of history, the big picture. Whether you agree with this story, at least think about it. You have far more power in this day and age, than you think, and far more than my mother's generation ever did. This is actually part of a broader spiritual evolution that's occuring. Humanity is nearing the end of its adolescence, and it's going to be pretty ugly for awhile. Think of babies in cribs playing with nuclear bombs. Think of the gestating Star Child in <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. We may not make it, some teenagers commit suicide or engage in suicidal behavior. But it's important to understand where we're at as a species, and where we're going. The rebalancing of yin and yang is part of this. Feminism isn’t dead, it’s just paused for a bit.

Like your mom, I lived through the great liberal advances of the 1960s (in the privacy of my own thoughts, I call this “the Golden Age of America”). Every social movement is met with reaction, and that’s what we’re going through now. Despite the efforts of the right, people are not going backwards, at least not for long. And so from your young perspective, it seems like stasis, or even retreat, but this is just a blip in the bigger picture.

As a side note, think of all the television commercials you have seen where the woman is smart and the man is a domestic dope. If you look at the themes in advertising, women are not going backwards, despite the way things may look on the surface.

Despite the dark times we’re in today, yin (female) and yang (male) are coming back into balance, after thousands of years where yang was dominant. At some point thousands of years ago, people traded their fertility goddesses for male gods. They traded tribes for cities. Yang energy gave us social hierarchies, science, writing, western civilization. It also gave us ICBMs, genetically engineered food, acid rain and global corporatism. As a positive force, yang has gone as far as it can in this current age, to the brink of destroying the planet. Yin (feminine) energy is in ascendance, and has been for a few centuries, if you think about it. Yin must rebalance yang to avoid the planetary catastrophes we’re now facing.

The whole misogynist flap with the right wing taking over America is temporary, unless of course yang, in the guise of fundamentalist governments manages to blow us back to the stone age, which is possible. And so you women have a lot of work to do. Know the arc of history, the big picture. Whether you agree with this story, at least think about it. You have far more power in this day and age, than you think, and far more than my mother’s generation ever did.

This is actually part of a broader spiritual evolution that’s occuring. Humanity is nearing the end of its adolescence, and it’s going to be pretty ugly for awhile. Think of babies in cribs playing with nuclear bombs. Think of the gestating Star Child in 2001: A Space Odyssey. We may not make it, some teenagers commit suicide or engage in suicidal behavior. But it’s important to understand where we’re at as a species, and where we’re going. The rebalancing of yin and yang is part of this.

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