Posted by: mkrnhr
It sounds indeed somehow "intrusive" and degrading from someone you don't know. Cultural memes like this do carry a lot of subconscious messages.
Indeed. I am still, at this late stage of my life, trying to come to terms with this cultural meme! And I am so trying to understand the subconscious message that has been imprinted on my own psyche.
I am a woman who, as a child, lived through the 'Woman's movement'. Who saw my own Mother (a single woman with 3 children to support) attempt to make it in a 'Man's World' and still be a Woman and a Mother. As a child, I felt that I lost my Mother to the 'Corporation'. And Seeing how the world is now, I think that maybe I was a smart little girl!! Although as an Adult, I see my mother as a courageous Woman who ventured into the world of the unknown (at least at the time) to better life for herself and also for her children and their future.
So maybe there is a part of me that does not appreciate statements that may seem derogatory towards woman, maybe having grown up in a country and a society that doesn't really appear to honor anything feminine, but actually seems to promote that woman become more masculine in order to play in the 'sandbox', has made me appear 'anti-man'. But my apologies to you mkrnhr (as it appears that you may be a man, I gather, but I may be wrong), and to all the men of this Forum. I love Men!! Real Men, those that are working to find that True Masculine that may dwell inside them. And all the Women who may be striving to balance the feminine/masculine in themselves. And although I have lived for the past 12 years without one of you (men, I mean), and am still alive to prove that you're not a necessity to a woman's survival, but I still think that, like I said previously....
"I can't help but wonder why a 'Prince Charming', 'Knight in Shinning Armour' type program would be necessary to combat something that did not have some kind of significance in the first place."
And no matter how hard, or how long I try to balance my own feminine/masculine alone as a person, I can't help but think, how much stronger and better that force might be with the input of two minds, working together. Alas, maybe the need for the 'programs'.
I don't mean to insinuate anything, particularly anything that may make anyone reading this thread come to any conclusions about any relationship issues, I haven't had one for the past 12 years and do not anticipate having one in the near future, this is simply an expression of my thoughts and observations. Okay, truth in disclosure complete, I leave you with my feelings as they stand at present (subject to change with further knowledge)