I think characterizing things as masculine and feminine can be taken too far and it does lead people to unconsciously apply their favorite label to everything they like and the other label to everything they don't like.Katy wrote:There is a lot of focus on the negative aspects of femininity here, and understandably so. However, I question the fact that there are no negative masculine qualities. One of the quickest to come to mind is physical violence.
So I've come to the conclusion that these labels only make sense in relation to the activities of reproduction and the only categorization that makes sense is to label all reproductive activities as feminine and everything else as masculine.
The question that remains is where to draw the boundary between a reproductive activity and a non-reproductive activity, and I think you're going to have to look at the motivation of each act in order to decide if it's masculine or feminine.
If someone catches his wife cheating on him and kills her in a jealous rage, then I would think that's feminine because the reason he did it boils down to a reproductive instinct.
But if he's Aztec or something and he sacrifices his wife to the gods as an atonement for his sins than I would think that's masculine because the reason isn't part of a reproductive instinct, it's intellectually based.
