(Important note: please take this post in the jocular spirit it is intended).
Of all the mysteries in all the world none is more puzzling than woman. And yes, I’m a man. I know my place in the world, but understand it is always being baffled by woman. Maybe that’s why man cannot understand; because the world he sees as his. But man IS superior, isn’t he? After all, he can aim.
Oh, to understand a woman - her whims, her needs, her desires, her reason for being here.
EVOLUTIONIST THEORY
Evolutionists think they’ve understood her. Everything she is - everything she does - is geared to placing her genes best. Her inner nature drives her to the best man for procreation and healthy offspring. And this can cause many problems for men.
According to the latest research, when a woman flirts, she isn’t necessarily fancying you, but testing you. And of course, man always considers it fancying, and another brush with sexual harassment is not far off. But in her body language, her gestures, her signals, she is doing nothing more than sizing you up.
When the perfect man is there, and procreation is had, never expect to be number one. She has those bags of genes called children to nurture. And quite rightly so. The father who gets jealous of his son is not only morally wrong, but naturally wrong.
And the children are growing, about to fly the nest? Unless you are truly and inseparably in love, serial monogamy could well be on the way. Evolutionists, you see, have decided that, just as nature thrives best with diversity, so does woman. And one man maybe isn’t enough.
RELIGIOUSLY SPEAKING
Those clever evolutionists seem to have it sown up. They understand women better than anyone. Except, of course, they’ve left out things such as love, jealousy, duty and a host of human traits that have nothing to do with hard science.
Does the Bible help us? According to Genesis, woman was a bit of spare created from Adam’s rib. There are standard jokes about this. To women, Eve was the result of God ironing out the imperfections in man; to men, she was proof of God’s sense of humour. But clearly the Bible portrays woman as so often the temptress. From Eve tempting Adam with the ‘apple’, her fate was sealed as that sexual distraction that will always infect man’s mind.
FEMALE MANIPULATION
This does, of course, tell us more about man than woman. It is rarely woman who causes the trouble, but man being unable to control his lust. This is particularly true today, in a world where women think they can have cross-gender friendships, but men still think that if a woman is friendly, it’s an invitation for sex.
The Bible IS correct concerning the subtle manipulations of women. No gender is better prepared to get what they want by stealth. The pout, the gyration of the hips, even the delicate finger down the back of the neck, turns men to putty.
Men see this as the root of all evil, but it is much more preferable than man’s way of getting what he wants - to fight his way to success.
WOMAN IN SOCIETY
This seductiveness of woman has kept her out of history for most of known civilisation. But in reality, she has been at the forefront of history all along. There used to be a saying that a successful man needs a good woman behind him. This remains absolutely true. So often it is the woman driving her man on, advising, giving confidence, warning of the pitfalls.
This vital role of woman appears in all areas of life. There is the old stereotype of the man as head of the household, the breadwinner, going out into the world, while the woman stays at home, the homemaker.
This was a world with clearly defined boundaries. And yes, the man was in the world, but the woman was so often the power, bringing up the children how she wanted; and God help a man who interfered with her running of the house.
FEMALE SPIRITUALITY
This truth is gone now, for we live in a world of equality. But this centreing of power in the woman seems to have echoes in nature and early societies. From the Queen bee to the lioness, nature places the female in the primary role.
In early pagan societies the woman similarly seems to have been predominant, with deities such as the Goddess and Mother Earth. Indeed, it seems that civilisation as we know it began when woman was knocked off her primary pedestal.
The female seems to have been venerated in a world where impulses were cyclical. This was a time before history as we know it, where life was regulated in the never ending seasons, with everything repeated and going back to the beginning ad infinitum. Then, suddenly, along came man with his great big ego, deciding this unchanging world was insufficient.
IN CONCLUSION
He changed cyclic life into linear life, with things only being good if it caused advancement. This was the dawn of history, locking woman into the only cyclical element of life left - the home and the family.
Thus, woman was removed from her predominance, and remained removed until the advent of feminism. Now, woman is liberated - free to do her own thing, and entering the history books again. But what has really happened is that woman has now become linear. In effect, she has not come into the world by bringing with her her female abilities, but by leaving them behind and becoming just like man.
Whether that makes feminism a success, I’m not so sure. But one thing is clear. Just as we men begin to understand women, they go and reverse the lot, leaving us just as confused all over again.
Now isn’t that typical of a woman.
© Anthony North, July 2007
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THE FEMALE SERF
I am now risking life and limb by entering the debate into the difference between male and female. First of all, while differences may be due to gender, genes, whatever, I think there is another vital element to it.
