POST XXXVI - CONCLUSION
A MIND (male, female or trans) is a manifestation of a BODY's anatomy and physiology (male, female or trans) and its physical and social interactions with its ENVIRONMENT.
[Both monastic religion and contemporary political correctness have pursued a fantasy that a mind is a socially constructed free-standing entity independent of a body.]
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
POST XXXV - ADDENDA: To Clarify Some Implicit Concepts
1) A woman, except for occupations requiring brute strength, can do anything a man can do - and often better than a man!
Yet such female capacity depends, to some extent, on a man telling her that she can perform the task. This is what a woman/girl is referring to when she says she needs a father/brother/husband/boyfriend/teacher/cleric or even a passing acquaintance or a senior mother or aunt to verbally and emotionally "support" her. This phenomenon is implicit in much of what this blogger has written before in terms of a female 'giving birth to' a reality in accordance with how she has been 'impregnated' by male words, action and wants.
Unfortunately, a female is exquisitely sensitive to male complaint and criticism that undermine her confidence and capacities. Such is the real lesson of the Genesis 'Garden of Eden' story.
2) BASIC SEX EDUCATION: Boys and Men of All Ages should be taught to address only positive and constructive words and actions and wants to (and about) a female.
'Flattery Gets a Man Everywhere and Everything!'
3) To the extent that good and evil exist, there is no such thing as a good man or a bad/evil woman.
A river becomes bad/evil only when it has been polluted upstream by mankind. Similarly, a woman becomes bad/evil only when she has been emotionally or conceptually 'polluted' by a man or an institution.
4) It has been said (and this blogger concurs) that a man 'follows his phallus'.
A female, on the other hand, organizes her environment to be 'in tune with' her complex and highly innervated genitalia.
5) Aside from the trivial 'yin' and 'yang' of Oriental philosophy, philosophers (both East and West) have ignored the possibility that their ideas might be valid for males but not for females. This Philosophy of Heterosexuality begins to address this conceptual/intellectual deficiency!
6) Although a woman or girl likes to be able to engage in traditional male activities, she does not "envy" males or male sexuality (notwithstanding Freud's assumption).
7) Female children, virtually from birth, are keen observers of human relationship and quickly perceive that male functioning is different from (and complementary to) female functioning in social interactions.
A boy pays primary attention is to the surrounding environment (including other people) and what he can get from it. While a boy might obtain different things from a man than from a woman, he is unlikely to analyze how male-female interaction per se works.
Thus, into adulthood, most men (like Freud) have failed to recognize that a woman is more than simply a different kind of man - while girls and women all know this!
1) A woman, except for occupations requiring brute strength, can do anything a man can do - and often better than a man!
Yet such female capacity depends, to some extent, on a man telling her that she can perform the task. This is what a woman/girl is referring to when she says she needs a father/brother/husband/boyfriend/teacher/cleric or even a passing acquaintance or a senior mother or aunt to verbally and emotionally "support" her. This phenomenon is implicit in much of what this blogger has written before in terms of a female 'giving birth to' a reality in accordance with how she has been 'impregnated' by male words, action and wants.
Unfortunately, a female is exquisitely sensitive to male complaint and criticism that undermine her confidence and capacities. Such is the real lesson of the Genesis 'Garden of Eden' story.
2) BASIC SEX EDUCATION: Boys and Men of All Ages should be taught to address only positive and constructive words and actions and wants to (and about) a female.
'Flattery Gets a Man Everywhere and Everything!'
3) To the extent that good and evil exist, there is no such thing as a good man or a bad/evil woman.
A river becomes bad/evil only when it has been polluted upstream by mankind. Similarly, a woman becomes bad/evil only when she has been emotionally or conceptually 'polluted' by a man or an institution.
4) It has been said (and this blogger concurs) that a man 'follows his phallus'.
A female, on the other hand, organizes her environment to be 'in tune with' her complex and highly innervated genitalia.
5) Aside from the trivial 'yin' and 'yang' of Oriental philosophy, philosophers (both East and West) have ignored the possibility that their ideas might be valid for males but not for females. This Philosophy of Heterosexuality begins to address this conceptual/intellectual deficiency!
6) Although a woman or girl likes to be able to engage in traditional male activities, she does not "envy" males or male sexuality (notwithstanding Freud's assumption).
7) Female children, virtually from birth, are keen observers of human relationship and quickly perceive that male functioning is different from (and complementary to) female functioning in social interactions.
A boy pays primary attention is to the surrounding environment (including other people) and what he can get from it. While a boy might obtain different things from a man than from a woman, he is unlikely to analyze how male-female interaction per se works.
Thus, into adulthood, most men (like Freud) have failed to recognize that a woman is more than simply a different kind of man - while girls and women all know this!
Thursday, March 16, 2017
POST XXXIV - CLARIFICATION REGARDING 'WITCH' TERMINOLOGY
a) The OED offers a definition of the noun "spell":
"An attraction or fascination exercised by a person, activity, quality, etc.; a mysterious power or influence. Also, a state of enchantment or trance (as) produced by a magic spell."
Females, virtually from the crib onwards, cast such spells of attraction and fascination by their dress, bodily comportment, tone of voice and chosen syntax (ie., how they say or don't say something).
Such spell-casting is largely automatic, involuntary and unconscious and not associated with 'practicing magic' or 'witch-craft' as such.
The female capacities of "affecting", "transforming" and "interpreting" noted in POST # V above ("Humanizing the Soma") can be seen as manifestations of female casting of spells.
b) Regarding male-female verbal interaction:
The November 22, 2005 issue of Discover Magazine has an article by David Epstein entitled "Men Hear Women's Melodies: Male and female voices activate distinct regions in the male brain."
Thus: "Psychiatrist Michael Hunter and fellow researchers at the University of Sheffield in England monitored the brain activity of 12 men as they listened to voice recordings and found they processed male voices differently from those of females. Women's voices stimulate an area of the brain used for processing complex sounds, like music. Male voices activated the 'mind's eye,' a region of the brain used for conjuring imagery.
"One reason, Hunter suggests, is that women generally have shorter vocal cords and a smaller larynx, giving them higher-pitched voices. Women's voices may also have more 'natural melody', he adds. Qualities like pitch and volume vary more during speech. 'There's more prosody in female speech'."
References: 1) Dilraj S. et al. in NeuroImage , Vol 27, No.3, pages 572-578; September 2005.
2) www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/422-1.174743
c) DISCLAIMER
Earlier (POSTS IX and XIX) I have compared natural procreative male functioning (effecting, informing and defining) with God's presumed supernatural functioning in Genesis 1
In this present POST XXXIV, on the other hand, I have compared natural female procreative functioning (affecting, transforming and interpreting - as described in POST V) with a witch's presumed supernatural spell-casting functioning.
IN BOTH CASES, THE PHENOMENA ARE ENTIRELY NATURAL; AND FEMALE SPELL-CASTING MUST NOT BE CONSTRUED AS SUPERNATURAL WITCH-CRAFT THAT RENDERS A MAN POWERLESS TO CONTROL HIS OWN ACTIONS!
NEITHER PEDOPHILIA NOR SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE ARE CONDONED OR DEFENDED.
a) The OED offers a definition of the noun "spell":
"An attraction or fascination exercised by a person, activity, quality, etc.; a mysterious power or influence. Also, a state of enchantment or trance (as) produced by a magic spell."
Females, virtually from the crib onwards, cast such spells of attraction and fascination by their dress, bodily comportment, tone of voice and chosen syntax (ie., how they say or don't say something).
Such spell-casting is largely automatic, involuntary and unconscious and not associated with 'practicing magic' or 'witch-craft' as such.
The female capacities of "affecting", "transforming" and "interpreting" noted in POST # V above ("Humanizing the Soma") can be seen as manifestations of female casting of spells.
b) Regarding male-female verbal interaction:
The November 22, 2005 issue of Discover Magazine has an article by David Epstein entitled "Men Hear Women's Melodies: Male and female voices activate distinct regions in the male brain."
Thus: "Psychiatrist Michael Hunter and fellow researchers at the University of Sheffield in England monitored the brain activity of 12 men as they listened to voice recordings and found they processed male voices differently from those of females. Women's voices stimulate an area of the brain used for processing complex sounds, like music. Male voices activated the 'mind's eye,' a region of the brain used for conjuring imagery.
"One reason, Hunter suggests, is that women generally have shorter vocal cords and a smaller larynx, giving them higher-pitched voices. Women's voices may also have more 'natural melody', he adds. Qualities like pitch and volume vary more during speech. 'There's more prosody in female speech'."
References: 1) Dilraj S. et al. in NeuroImage , Vol 27, No.3, pages 572-578; September 2005.
2) www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/422-1.174743
c) DISCLAIMER
Earlier (POSTS IX and XIX) I have compared natural procreative male functioning (effecting, informing and defining) with God's presumed supernatural functioning in Genesis 1
In this present POST XXXIV, on the other hand, I have compared natural female procreative functioning (affecting, transforming and interpreting - as described in POST V) with a witch's presumed supernatural spell-casting functioning.
IN BOTH CASES, THE PHENOMENA ARE ENTIRELY NATURAL; AND FEMALE SPELL-CASTING MUST NOT BE CONSTRUED AS SUPERNATURAL WITCH-CRAFT THAT RENDERS A MAN POWERLESS TO CONTROL HIS OWN ACTIONS!
NEITHER PEDOPHILIA NOR SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE ARE CONDONED OR DEFENDED.
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