Thursday, March 8, 2012

International Women's Day - It's a Testosterone World

A number of years ago I attended a meeting where a young man, a poet, told us he had just read a work in which God was referred to as She. He felt most uncomfortable, but as a result he understood how women must feel when God and just about everything else in this world is referred to in the masculine.
So a thought for this International Women's Day - wouldn't it be a wonderful change to have all news reports, businesses, education, social and health organizations, and media run with a women's point of view? A truly women's perspective, not how women might think as seen through a man's eyes and understanding. There would be more focus on the matriarchal approach to society, like in the Minoan Civilization of Crete where all were respected as equal regardless of race, creed or sex, and where emphasis was on peace not war. So a news broadcast might be more about nurturing, harmony, solutions and peace-making rather than on the testosterone approach of guns, more guns, enemies, fighting, aggression, them and us, control and fear.
What a difference that would make in this world!
Anyone willing to give it a go?

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