The Hidden Impact of Patriarchy (on Men and Women)

It's titled, The Hidden Impact, How Does Patriarchy Harm Men Too?, The overarching task right now is the reconciliation of the oldest wound of humanity, which is patriarchy.

This wound manifests in very devious ways, and once you get beyond the limiting notion that patriarchy is only about men and women, you'll see that it is underneath everything, everywhere there is a power imbalance.

patriarchy is not as much about women and men as a dynamic underpinning almost all the systems in which we live that rely on hierarchy and ranking which is reinforced through different forms of violence including economic bodily and environmental patriarchal systems overvalue the masculine style of consciousness everyone has an inner masculine you might realize And patriarchy denigrates the feminine style of consciousness, and everyone has an inner feminine.

The masculine and feminine are ways of approaching things, and assuming one has more value than the other explains a lot of the devastation in the world.

What is needed is not so much balance, rather the capacity to be fluid.

There are times to bring a masculine, more intellectual perspective, but without the feminine connectedness perspective, there is exploitation, suffering, and even death.

men do not inherently have a well-developed masculine those men who shout and parade their masculinity are the most insecure some women have a healthier developed masculine and have an unhealthy relationship with their inner feminine Some men are more in tune with their feminine than some women.

It's quite a mess.

You can gauge the relationship with your inner feminine and masculine by your emotional reactions to others.

It can be eye opening when you discover your disdain for some other people reveals a lot about your inner battle.

This is not to excuse bad behavior on the part of others, but the potential insight about your inner battle lies in the intensity of your emotions about others.

Men aren't the enemy and neither are women.

When patriarchy hooked up with religion, Christianity, for example, the feminine was split off, discarded and projected onto women as a gender, their bodies, sexuality and nature, which is also the feminine.

Think Mother Nature.

The result of splitting off a part of yourself is hating a part of yourself without knowing it.

The inner disdain for a part of yourself is projected onto those whom the powers that be have decided are inferior.

By seeing others as inferior, you are projecting your own sense of inferiority or insecurity onto them.