--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ben Gilberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right. It was a reckless post and I did indulge in ranting and raving. I won't be so thoughtless in the future.
So there is a person behind the writing! Have you ever read William Farrell's work "Why Men Are the Way They Are"? He was part of the feminist movement until he spoke against their doctrine at the time of "men bad, women good". This simplistic perspective has been updated by most modern feminists IMO. But his work was groundbreaking and I found it useful in shaping my own perspective. Here is a link to the Amazon page: http://tinyurl.com/299oep I was busting your balls (excuse the image) for not giving this group credit for having thought about the information you wrote about. I think you will find that most posters here are pretty familiar with the lines of thought you expressed and can actually discuss the ideas rather than get a lecture. Thanks for responding. > > curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Alright, I didn't mean to rant and rave." > > Yes you did, that's what you do. I think this POV was big news when > the Brady Bunch was on TV. Man bashing is soooo 70's. > > "The male ego is in such a profound state of pathological deformity > that it would rather see the world destroyed than to discover the > inner femininity that would restore it's wholeness." > > On behalf of all men I revoke your nutsack. Please put it on the > shelf next to all the 1970's therapists who thought they could score > with chicks if they gave pseudo-feminist rants. > > "Fortunately, those of us who are willing to balance ourselves back > into our natural Androgyny will embrace these terrified fellows with > the patience, forgiveness and compassion that will heal them of the > traumatic mutilation they've suffered in the face of society's > monstrous gender schizophrenia." > > I was gunna guess what you have in your CD collection but I'm afraid > you might try to embrace me. I'm terrified don't ya know? > > "Much Love," > > Ah, the impersonal sweetness of "much" anonymous love. > > You're a therapist, how about demonstrating some calibration and > rapport skills? > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ben Gilberti <b7gilberti@> wrote: > > > > > > Well, as I've been reading the various replies to the sex post on a > couple different Forums, I'm thinking, you know what, this whole thing > goes a lot deeper than we dare to even imagine. I'm talking about > very severe psychological mutilation, fearfully hidden, and if you > start exposing it it feels like an attack. > > > > Of course, to expose a fearfully hidden mutilation is not an > attack but a step towards healing. But to allow that mutilation to > remain hidden because its exposure is feared, is to allow both the > fear and the mutilation both to remain. The ego's pretense of benign > normality is a desperate attempt to conceal the intolerable madness > that knows it's very existence is an absolute fraud. Only the > monstrous masculinity of viciously aggressive deceit could sustain > such a fragile charade, hence making the fragility of feminine > tenderness a mortal threat. And so masculinity has been caricatured > into a horrific travesty of cruelty and torture, and femininity > bludgeoned lifeless to neutralize the dreadful peril it's feared to > be. > > > > Disabled Creativity disables spiritual progress and disabled > sexuality disables Creativity, and disabled, maimed, distorted, > repressed, denied, perverted, feared, abused, misused, misunderstood, > misperceived, blocked, misconstrued, slandered, concealed, lied about, > dysfunctional, imbalanced, frustrated, impotent, frigid, maligned, > hated, twisted, condemned sexuality is the most widespread and deeply > entrenched pathological disorder that afflicts the human race. > Wilhelm Reich called it the emotional plague, and he was absolutely > right. It's the ego's most successful castration of spiritual growth > because the ego's got so many people supporting that castration in the > name of spiritual well-being. > > > > To better understand the necessity of balancing masculinity and > femininity within each individual, notice the obvious results if one > or the other is disabled. > > > > The womanly woman is passive, receptive, accepting, nurturing, but > not of anything that she herself intends, so her nurturing acceptance > must always be at the service of others, making her a doormat at best > and a slave at worst, or worst yet an entirely dysfunctional basket > case of no benefit either to herself or to anyone else. > > > > The manly man is bristling with assertive intention and forceful > initiative. But all his intentions and initiatives that would be of a > Creative nature, instead of being accepted and nurtured by him to > their full fruition, maturity and completeness, they are callously, > impatiently and insensitively abandoned by him and nothing becomes of > them. Furious that his grandiose and egotistical assertiveness falls > impotent, yet with an intense denial, repression and aversion of the > innate femininity that would render him Creative, he turns his > assertiveness to aggressive destructiveness where it produces the > vivid and grandiose results that his egotism craves, and so he further > infects the planet with another manly man waging destructive war in > boardrooms, in politics, in military combat, in domestic violence and > so on. > > > > The male ego is in such a profound state of pathological deformity > that it would rather see the world destroyed than to discover the > inner femininity that would restore it's wholeness. Fortunately, > those of us who are willing to balance ourselves back into our natural > Androgyny will embrace these terrified fellows with the patience, > forgiveness and compassion that will heal them of the traumatic > mutilation they've suffered in the face of society's monstrous gender > schizophrenia. > > > > Alright, I didn't mean to rant and rave. But actually, this stuff > does far more damage left deeply hidden and denied. Unpleasant to > expose, but much worse to hide. > > > > Much Love, > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. > Try it now. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. >
