Old tapes / traditional beliefs and gender roles for men and women
Old tapes / traditional beliefs and gender roles for men and women
“We also do not have to be the victim of tradition - of the programming from our days of living in caves, or any traditions that have developed since that time. The “traditional” context for viewing male and female roles (to say nothing of such areas as “family values” and marriage) in this society is patriarchal supremacy. " “Men are programmed to be emotionally dishonest - which causes them to be cut off from connection to their heart and soul. It is an emotionally dishonest patriarchy focused on material “success” in cultures whose value systems do not honor and respect individual dignity and worth, that can justify war - that has brought us to the brink of destroying the planet.” “The even more devastating negative affect of the Women’s movement in my perspective, is that women who inherently are most heart connected because of their ability to give birth - have been given the right to compete with men who have never been heart connected in an economic system that does not honor the heart. In other words, women have won the dubious right to be more like men - in the emotionally dishonest, human doing prototype of traditional accepted male behavior.”
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Old tapes / traditional beliefs and gender roles for men and women was originally published online as Old tapes / traditional beliefs and roles May 26, 2003 on Robert’s Inner Child/Codependency Recovery page on the Suite101.com Directory. Some slight changes were made in moving this article to Joy2MeU.com - primarily in removing references to other articles on suite101 and changing the links for those articles to counterparts on Joy2MeU.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/gender_roles.htm