Thursday, January 12, 2012

Reason, time to let it go?




Cultural prejudice says that reason is a distinguishing quality of the male sex.

Often we hear this prejudice in articles, talk shows and other media.
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Men were supposed to be more rational.
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Women are stated to be more emotional.
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And also to be more intuitive.
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Women were thought closer to their biology.
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More subject to periodic fluctuations of hormones.
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While aspects of this are true for many humans others most certainly do not fit these stereotypes
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And so?
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The gravity of this subject is that it implies that reason is more important, more serious, more critical
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And because we are trained to think this way it implies the male to be more important than the female.
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And this we know today to be a silly way of thinking about the sexes.
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Neither is more important than the other.
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Both need each other, are part of the other.
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Time to let go of these stereotypes they do more harm than good.
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Men tend to use reason in more situations than do women and perhaps therein lies a big problem
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Many subjects are better approached, evaluated, and acted upon from our other senses.
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Feminine senses.
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Those feminine senses available to the feminine in both men and women.
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Women and the feminine give men the chance to go beyond reason which is often inappropriate in many situations.
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To reconnect with nature.
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Reason has now been found out.
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Reason is no longer an answer to many if not most of our problems.
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If indeed it ever was.
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Time for other senses to come into play.

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