Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Why Women should love the romantic, impractical, intellectual side to men.

(Just flicked on the below) I really wish women would love the romantic, impractical, intellectual side to men more, and men love the soul of women, because women are all soul. They say feminism undervalues the otherness of women, (the early 60's wave, under the influence of the brilliant but despicable French crank Simone de Beauvoir, did but, in fairness, that does not represent all feminists) but our society is losing its appreciation of the otherness of men too. Characteristically male traits; impractical intellectualism, camaraderie among "the lads", placing an ideal (such as God or country) above survival, and a sort a perfunctory attitude towards one's appearance (perhaps the most distinguishable male trait of all) are under threat in modern society. With regard to the last one men are increasingly pressured to partake in "fashion" and the relentless modern project to beautify oneself, which has now evolved to an hysterical degree. While I know this sounds narrow minded, I'm angry, so I'm going to say it; Real men should have an austere, perfunctory attitude to there appearance, final. The most desirable state for a man will always be complete self-mastery, live your life the way you want to live it, decide what values will determine your life, and make up your own mind. 

Worryingly, I think the modern world (in some respects at least) really militates against self-mastery and self-determination, so many people are following the crowd, whether it is how they dress or what values they love their life by, and particularly in the corporate career ladder where most people work, where a real overly competitive , status-orientated mob mentality prevails. We should try and train ourselves to be self-mastering and self-determining, but the question remains should the ideal be pursued by both men and women equally? Now I might be wrong, but I didn't think this ideal of complete self-mastery (which I probably developed from reading Nietzsche) is practical for most women, because women will always be more communally orientated in their thinking than men. I find women emotionally deeper than men (this is partially what I mean by soul, a woman will bring her soul into everything), but complete self-determination is probably a characteristically male aspiration, although what political/social inferences to draw from this I'm not sure. (Perhaps none at all) Whatever conclusions we draw, women should try and love the romantic, impractical, intellectual side to men, and men should love the soul of women, because women are all soul. 

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