My point is that a woman’s desire to control men is largely governed by her need to take care of her offspring. Of course, she also uses men for her own selfish needs, and men do the same to women. However, a woman’s maternal instinct is very powerful, and she sacrifices much of her own needs for her offspring, and she expects the man to do the same thing. Basically having children is a sacrifice for both men and women. And women expect this sort of sacrifice by men, which is essentially a loss of freedom and integrity. A man needs to sacrifice all his energy to his own mind, not to a woman’s maternal desire to raise offspring.Ryan, you were trying to make a point about the nature of the feminine. It really hasn’t come off. The reason it hasn’t can only be because you aren’t clear in your own mind as to what the nature of the feminine is
Even if a woman chooses not to have children, and she marries a man, the control she has over him is probably still rooted in this unconscious desire women have to tame brute masculinity for the benefit of child rearing. If he lacks a sophisticated masculinity, then she becomes the masculine controller, which is just dangerous. Do not underestimate the power of the sexual/maternal impulse in the sexes desire to control and possess each other. And Sue, do you really think that I can capture the entirety of the feminine in one paragraph? Haven’t you read everything else I ever commented on?
I realize that the feminine is operating in both men and women, but a women's character is more feminine than masculine, and that is why she has such a difficult time with philosophy. And that is not to say that the typical man is more reasonable than her because he often invests what masculinity he has into superficial activities such as sports, weight-lifting, automobiles restoration, loud stereos, and all the rest of it. His masculinity is enslaved to the feminine impulse he has to impress women as a means to have sex with them. A 'real' man puts all his masculinity into the perfection of his own mind, and any woman he allows in his life is in a non-emotional, non-attached, non-sentimental capacity.