There are Daily Richard Rohr reflections at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Today's reflections was this...
Masculinity is a strange thing so often expressed just as one's ability to dominate another. Be that physical strength, sporting ability or intellectual ability - how often has a man come in a conversation tired to trump the conversation by trying to say the cleverest thing. As an old uni friend bluntly put it masculinity is the ability to say "my d**k's bigger than yours". If your life is about dominating others or showing that you could dominate them if you wished, you become the kind of person that no-one feels like they can show any vulnerability, for fear of being dominated. Perhaps this is why some women act physically and mentally inferior to men in order to appeal to that dominating side. If we are telling people how all powerful and dominating our God is and how he demands us to submit to him, it is little wonder that men who have some sensitivity and women who are in some way empowered are just not interested in Christianity. We need to severely avoid this at all costs primarily because the more I get to know God the more I realise she's just not like this. :)
"Patriarchy and Masculinity"
Patriarchy and masculinity are not the same thing. Patriarchy is wounded and un-whole masculinity. If we believe that we are created in the image of God - "Male and female, God created them" - then half of God is what it means to be masculine. Half of God is what it means to be feminine. Anybody who only gives you half of that truth is only giving you half of the mystery of God. The journey for all of us is to find the opposite, the contrasexual. For men, this is called the anima, or feminine soul. Patriarchy is immature masculinity. Its' males who don't know their souls, who don't know who they are. So they overdo it. Whenever you see people dominating others, you know they haven't found their soul.
from Is There a Masculine Spirituality?
Masculinity is a strange thing so often expressed just as one's ability to dominate another. Be that physical strength, sporting ability or intellectual ability - how often has a man come in a conversation tired to trump the conversation by trying to say the cleverest thing. As an old uni friend bluntly put it masculinity is the ability to say "my d**k's bigger than yours". If your life is about dominating others or showing that you could dominate them if you wished, you become the kind of person that no-one feels like they can show any vulnerability, for fear of being dominated. Perhaps this is why some women act physically and mentally inferior to men in order to appeal to that dominating side. If we are telling people how all powerful and dominating our God is and how he demands us to submit to him, it is little wonder that men who have some sensitivity and women who are in some way empowered are just not interested in Christianity. We need to severely avoid this at all costs primarily because the more I get to know God the more I realise she's just not like this. :)
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