(05-08-2020, 06:10 PM)Louisabell Wrote:(05-07-2020, 07:44 PM)Navaratna Wrote: "I am genuinely interested in the male body experience, how it may relate or differ from my own. But hasn't it been said enough times that gender roles are illusionary at best, destructive at worst? "
Notice how men have upper bodies very large. Strong arms/chest and broad shoulders are attractive to many women.
While men oftentimes want women who are voluminous on the lower half of their forms
Arms, action. Seating, passive.
Active/passive are the terms I prefer.
In the way the minds are different, in gestation all brains begin as female and testosterone shapes the brain in to it's masculine patterns. Female brains have more a subtle way of detecting sound.
https://arlenetaylor.org/sensory-prefere...ifferences
Arms often bring home treasure through labor. Masculine is the passionate workforce of the daytime while outside the light of Sun pervades
Plump legs are common in women who are well fed. Feminine is the household of dreams. Moon.
Navaranta, I was hoping to hear something more specific about you. It is you as a being that is more interesting than any occult knowledge. I wanted to know your observations, hopes, dreams, sufferings.
I really don't mean this with any offence at all, so please take it in the light humour it is intended, but your posts read to me like you've swallowed up the whole internet, turned around and shot it back out indiscriminately.
No doubt you're picking up on patterns that I can't see and by all means continue if it serves you, I'm just letting you know my experience.
A part of it is that I'm not the most masculine male. In my view masculinity at its strongest is usually aggression, and aggression at its maximum leads to the devastation of life.
I observe that everyone has a spirit or mystical force within them because this is simply mind. Each person calls it whatever they choose to, but oftentimes people are blind to it because they don't reflect on the concept enough because they're pressured in to being a cog in the machine and masses being ignorant to this truth makes their minds much weaker and more malleable.
I think people crave it. They play videogames, they love T.V. movies, birthdays with pinatas. They want this visionary, colorful, joyful stimuli. Religious people know it, and they try to control people with it by capturing domains where it dwells and calling all other forms of concentrating it heresy. (you must worship me by praying in front of me so I can absorb this unspoken energy while I just pretend to not absorb it and expect tax exempt religious donations. I won't say it though shh pray)
Hopes, dreams, suffering
Banish all the evil in the world.
Dream of purifying peoples minds
Suffering claustrophobia, the fear of people placing hooks on my consciousness so I can be dragged around like a fish to a stronger beings benefit. It's hard to get away from in modern times. Easier in some ways, more difficult in others. A caveman never needed to worry about a place to sleep, but would die young and only have so much time to evolve through densities. A modern man lives longer but works harder and are sequestered in boxes. Yet there is more awareness, more understanding, and life can be easier under certain circumstances than having to die from diseases or natural disasters without warning. Hunting constantly, a lack of safety stemming from a lack of societal accountability
Sadness from unintentionally intimidating people with my appearance. A lot of males face it but don't express it.
I think Linkin Park as much as they were mocked appealed to a generation of young males because they express a lot of the feelings that they go through. I can't think of one band throughout history that ever was as popular with as many young men as this band. I think it's like a gender studies semester could be built around understanding why this band was so incredibly famous and popular more to one gender in one age group. It tells you about the mind.
Whether socially adjusted or not, their music embodies the moods of pressure that guys they feel. It's difficult to adjust to expectations they've been given without asking for it and it's not cool to show the sadness/whining but the music gives it a voice. It's like how a generation of women went nuts over the Twilight series or like right now G Eazy is probably the most desirable man in their eyes. Clean, Caucasian, wealthy, well spoken. Stadiums of women want him. Want to understand what is attractive to girls in Western society? Good example
The otherworld is everywhere as the other world is every thing. It may appear to be concentrated in certain places and maybe it is, and I think it'd be the most beneficial thing a person could do for themselves. Create a conscious space through meditation or other means of divination. Transforming life through thought,