Marcy (whistling_lass) wrote:

<< I think this idea is not new, and I may have read it somewhere at
some point. I've often been concerned that a lot of innovations (at
least in history) have been made by men and not women. Of course,
some people claim that it's proof that men are
better/superior/smarter. But this quote reminded me that throughout
much of history, women just didn't have the leisure time that men
did. >>

Or perhaps it is really true that there is a fundamental difference
between "maleness" and "femaleness". If one were to view these
qualities as energies, then one might say that a typical man
exemplifies an excess of "male energy" and that a typical woman
exemplifies an excess of "female energy". Of course "typical" implies
an average, whereas there are plenty of exceptions of women
exemplifying "male energy", and vice versa. Of course if one has an
excess of one energy, that implies one does have some of the opposite
engery too.

One might also characterize these "energies" such that male energy
might be likened to a visible, radiant energy, and female to an
invisible, attractive energy. Looking at sex roles in history men
have been the visible, the directing, and the teaching sex. The
female has been the invisible,the nurturing, and the attractive
(magnetic) sex.

If one were to compare the male to the positive energy of a simple
hydrogen atom, and the female to the negative energy of the electron
of that simple atom, then one could surmise that by coming to
together they form a stable bond where each energy is offset by the
other. Perhaps that is why most men and women spend a large part of
their lives searching for just the right amount of opposite "charge"
to balance them, or once they found it, to maintaining it?

But speaking of visible creativity, perhaps that is a male energy,
regardless of the actual sex of the person wielding it. I would say
that the opposite energy is just as important and necessary to the
equation, but not nearly as visible.

best regards from the politically incorrect :),

lk