07-21-2010, 12:00 AM
Tiff wrote:"I think being a woman poses a different way to handle, and has a different view of this phenomenon."
How so? I just mean, what is your view on this then?
Being a woman on this particular journey is different because of the fact that we are women. Women have very different roles in society, have very different roles in the family, therefore have very different perspectives on spirituality in general. Not better...just different. When I experienced childbirth it was the closest I have come in this reality to death. I remember the moment that death and birth were the same thing. We all have that capacity with or without having given birth. I think that gives us a unique outlook. Society gives and reinforces very different morays to women than to men also giving them a different outlook. Women are supposed to be sweet, polite, non confrontational, and deferential, not to mention weak and to be protected and owned. We as warriors know that is bullshit. However when our male counterparts act in such a way as to be rude, tyrannical, and generally condescending there are no real guidelines to reply. The onus again comes upon us to "look within" and see what the truth is...the truth is being rude just to be rude is not our problem it is the problem of the giver...not the receiver. But how to respond? Give like for like? Ignore them they will go away? No, I dont believe that is one bit empowering for anyone. So what to do?
How so? I just mean, what is your view on this then?
Being a woman on this particular journey is different because of the fact that we are women. Women have very different roles in society, have very different roles in the family, therefore have very different perspectives on spirituality in general. Not better...just different. When I experienced childbirth it was the closest I have come in this reality to death. I remember the moment that death and birth were the same thing. We all have that capacity with or without having given birth. I think that gives us a unique outlook. Society gives and reinforces very different morays to women than to men also giving them a different outlook. Women are supposed to be sweet, polite, non confrontational, and deferential, not to mention weak and to be protected and owned. We as warriors know that is bullshit. However when our male counterparts act in such a way as to be rude, tyrannical, and generally condescending there are no real guidelines to reply. The onus again comes upon us to "look within" and see what the truth is...the truth is being rude just to be rude is not our problem it is the problem of the giver...not the receiver. But how to respond? Give like for like? Ignore them they will go away? No, I dont believe that is one bit empowering for anyone. So what to do?