The Battle of the Sexes

 

The battle between the sexes has existed from time immemorial. Gender equality has been an oft repeated subject globally. But then, why do we even compare men and women?

 

In the attempt to compare men and women in terms of equality and sexism frequently and unconsciously the power of the woman is only gauged whether the female possesses a strong capability to mimic or triumph at male activities. Why should we define a powerful female by her ability to outdo a man at being a man? To do so is to disregard the divine feminine principle which is mysterious and elusive. The true potential of the feminine does not lie in the regulated and restrained expressions as does the male principle, but in the tacit and in the silence that holds these expressions. It does not lie in the brawn and physical assertion, but in the elegant pliability to captivate and envelop that which asserts. The divine feminine strength remains unspoken and mystical due to which it has been demonised and feared. This can also be logically viewed in the way the reproductive organs of the male and female are, the male reproductive organs are projecting outwards implying the more active nature of the masculine in contrast to his female counterpart reproductive organ that is hidden signifying the passivity of the feminine.

 

The very thought to compare if a male or female is like asking if the right or the left is superior, if it’s dark or light that is greater, if it is up or down that is greater, if it is the North or South that is superior. Both cannot exist without the other. They are two sides of a coin and complement each other. The right brain, the Shakti, the Yin, Prakriti which is the divine feminine principle corresponds to the intuitive, uninhibited, aesthetic, dark, nonlinear, rhythmic flowy watery aspect of creation and the left brain, the Shiva (Purusha), the Yang. The Purusha, the divine male principle is the logical, linear, controlled, rational airy aspect of creation. Our whole world is made up of the combination of these two principles. All living beings including flora comprise of both the feminine and the masculine, it is the merging and the unifying of these two opposing forces of consciousness (male) and creativity (feminine) that creates a balance. The suppression of the feminine and the dominance of the male is what creates a distorted masculine society as we see today, where everything is economics and all living has been reduced to pursuit and survival, paradoxically destroying the essence of the “being” from the Human, making us a Human Doing and not a Human “Being”.

 

“All Information whatsoever can be translated into terms of the Yin and Yang” - Alan Watts

 

The Male is the active, solar, physical, light, positive (proton), day feature whereas the feminine is the passive, receptive, dark, night, negative (electron), lunar feature of creation. Society looks down upon passivity and it is given little value not realising that passivity is essential to every form of accomplishment. The feminine is that space in which everything exists. It is the emptiness and the background in which all other tangible things exist. Nothing can be existential if there was no space to hold it.