I found this session very interesting because they touched on matriarchy. I would love to learn more. I am doing my dissertation using decolonial feminist theory, and it is hard for me to accept that the disadvantages and suffering that women have endured, let's say, since the "New World," are justified because they massacred men. I understand the karmic and genetic part, but the C's said it was partly it. There must be more to this background, and it's surely worth discussing. Why did I think that in matriarchies, there was more peace and justice in society and towards Mother Earth? Anti-feminism is going to the other extreme. My understanding is that we have been both male and female in our journey, so we need to solve this divide for our own good.
I feel like I should offer my aspect on this. I got a long history with feminism.
First I come from a planet where only one sex exists. We are hermaphrodites there. In this life on Earth I'm psychologically hermaphrodite, but physically more towards male. My puberty was delayed for 5-10 years, some things more than other.
When I didn't look like a kid anymore, I chose to present as a female. I lived as female from 19 to 33. And I studied feminism, wrote a paper on Virginia Woolf, was rather avid advocate against violence versus women. I live in Latvia which is a post USSR country and STS patriarchy was rampant here.
Along my spiritual journey I found out that I'm supposed to live as a male and my mission is to understand 2 sexes system and marriage compared to one sex system and different type of family structure from my home planet.
So from 33 I started to live as a male. I'm 38 now. That meant I had to use different hormones daily. Basically I changed my sex twice.
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So I really want to draw separation from STO romantic relationship models and STS.
STO means that both partners help each other, do their gender roles, are happy with their bodies, dominant energy for
male is masculine and for female is feminine. But STO are givers. Both parties give their time, mental and emotional energy to sustain
the relationship, marriage, kids, family company etc.
Yes, man is supposed to provide for family, but if the man is a teacher with 1500 euros a month wage (Latvia examples), but woman is an engineer with 3200 euros a month wage, but man is a great specialist and works with devotion, you can't expect him to work 24 hours a day, just because government doesn't value teachers.
In STS model things can get dirty very quick. There is manipulation from both sides, male and female. Females can be snakes,
males can be psychopaths and tyrants. STS girls want money, gifts, time, but don't want to raise kids. They want more things.
Materialism is the key often in STS relationships. Males want pretty and young bodies without long term stuff. Pay alimony, but be free and move on to a younger girl/woman.
Without writing an essay, the main thing is - as a STO person, don't try to make things work with someone who is egoistical and thinks
hedonism, self-gratification, power for power's sake and exploitation by outsmarting sheep-type people is good.
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Try to find another STO person and work from there. Good luck.