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Originally Posted by Starflower
This idea of male dominance over women is a very mistaken way of thinking and has accounted for much of the "controlling" chaos we see in cultures today. In many native cultures such as Polynesian, women were seen as in spiritual closeness to the Creative Life because they brought life into the world through their own bodies. Men respected their intuition as being a voice of natural power.
I surely expect that over time, the appreciation of what women have to offer as sovereign beings will be recognized. We each have an inner male and female. When men fail to appreciate that and seek to lord over, control and possess women, they actually castrate their own ability to communicate with spirit in wholeness.
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Well spoken, Starflower. Generally speaking, native cultures' attitude to women is the wisest.
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Sex lies at the root of life; we can never learn reverence of life until we know how to understand sex.
---Havelock Ellis (1859---1939)