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I wonder what would happen if a huge groundswell of women emerged in huge grassroots numbers and stated en-masse, “We no longer want to bear this stripping of self, stripping of soul, pushed on us by these cultural models driven by value systems that hold no value to the core reality and mythology of our femininity which shaped the tone and meaning of our woman’s path for untold generations…yea, through all of humanity’s path. We don’t want to be empty man-things, pushing our competition and manipulation toward corporate greed-culture goals in a devolving society that seemingly hates goddess earth in name of greed until death. Indeed, we instead want to live our lives with our children, in our homes and communities, with supportive, multi-generational family groups, and cultures of meaning, knowingly tied to the cycles of nature, birth, life, and even death. Yea, We will go back to goddess and deny the ugly gender emptiness of this corporate driven culture devoid of meaning and full of slavish goals and heart-ugly outcomes. Yea. We want to be whole again, and fully woman!”

And yes, Men can say it their way too. To touch these ancient roots is blessing, not curse. There is no value in denying our historical humanity for a neutral self, surrounding by values so meaningless as to be entirely demeaning to self as part of whole. There is no shame in being man or woman in any traditional sense, and to imply otherwise is to hate our shared-humanity itself.

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A total misunderstanding of the value of the historically enduring, broadly and culturally prevalent, practicality and mythologically driven, balanced, well-defined masculine path, easily critiqued during a modern, kardashian historical period when culture-less, corporate-clones mostly valued for being neutered and neutral gender are role model for the media driven production/consumption capital-cycle. But I don’t obsess daily on James Dean’s eroticism, so maybe i wouldn’t know.

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Bang on the nail, Jason. Thanks - for this and for all the other posts which I find fascinating.

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You hit all the right points, wish you could develops this at length in a.magazine article. I can't help thinking, too, of the homoerotic muscular statues in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy at al. All while decrying 'degenerate' art and philosophy.

BTW, ancient Greek hero cults make for.similarly weird glorification of.impossible masculinity. Both real and mythical heroes became impossibly huge giants of godly beauty and powers.

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