Travis McGee and Gender Balance

“A man with no trace of the feminine in him, with no duality at all, is a man without tenderness, sympathy, gentleness, kindness, responsiveness. He is brute-mean, a hammer, a fist. McGee, what is a woman with no trace of the masculine in her makeup?’

‘Mmm. Merciless in a different way?’

‘You show promise McGee.”-

-John D. MacDonald, “Bright Orange For The Shroud.”

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There was a recent post from a woman saying “I don’t think men are good people.” O.K…the problem with that is a woman who feels that way, or a man who feels “I don’t think women are good people” have some challenges.

1. Either they are really saying “I don’t think people are good” or they are saying “men and women are not equal.”
2. If that’s what they believe down deep, but can’t say it honestly and clearly, they are being dishonest, which automatically warps their reality. You cannot confine dishonesty to one portion of your life — it propagates. Of course, imagine a woman who thinks “Men are bad” and a man who says “women are bad” meeting at a single’s bar and going home together. Let the fun begin.
3. If you disown the male or female energy, you cannot claim and harness them within yourself. A reader honestly admitted that she questioned whether men were good…but in the attempt to love herself, discovered she didn’t trust her own male energy. This would deny her access to the “Yang” qualities of human energetics, and…