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Gender Roles in a Patriarchy

The Oldest Game on Earth

The Male - Female Dichotomy
and the Paradigms We Live By

by Angela Kahealani, 1990
revised 2000-02-17

Introduction

The Human Condition on planet Earth is one we are so intimately involved with, that often we are simply blind to its very nature by virtue of it being so close, right under our noses, that we cannot see it for what it is. Here we look at Human life from an unusual perspective, in order to achieve a deeper understanding of "where we are coming from", that we may be better able to derive new perspectives on "where we are going" in The New (Aquarian) Age.

People will suffer nearly anything to avoid being uncomfortable. The thing which most makes people uncomfortable, is change or growth. I hope this will inspire in you awareness of the problems we as Humans have, trying to live within the structure of our existing paradigms for life in the material world. I question whether we will survive if our existing paradigms do. Only when we as individuals shift our paradigms, will the collective paradigm grow and transform into something we can live with in the New (Aquarian) Age.

The Manifest World

At the very root of our existance as physically manifest beings is a very simple, body based, priority; to survive and to reproduce (genetic survival). The implications of this simple priority are all pervasive, and none too subtle, though we often take them so very much for granted that their effects on our lives may be insidiously subtle.

The very nature of the physical world is predicated upon dichotomy. The most fundamental dichotomy of Human life is the division of Human bodies into two polar opposites, Male and Female. Our spirits are in fact completely androgynous, containing all properties of both sexes and both genders, where they contain any of those properties, and are not limited as are bodies, for we incarnate in both sexes of bodies in various lifetimes. Aside from our body's reproductive differences, there is no difference between men and women; which is to say that we are all androgynous spirits incarnate in Human bodies. Sexual difference in bodies is everything; there is no aspect of our lives which is not significantly differentiated by which sex body we inhabit. Let this not be interpreted in any way to imply sexist qualities of good-bad or better-worse. All souls are equal in spirit, and should therefore have equal rights in the physical world. Yet such is sadly, rarely the case in our present manifestation.

Foremost in reproduction is the impetus for survival of one's genes. This is observable in many species including Humans, in the willingness of a parent to sacrifice up to and including the entirety of their own life to ensure the survival of their offspring. This is not a magnanimous gift given to the child from a source of love, but a burden passed on from generation to generation, to carry the lineage of genetic coding in every cell of their bodies.

Creating a child in the first place entails a complex decision process. It is here where we see major differentiation based on sex. Achieving the best possible combination of genetic material for the child is based on choice of mate based on their genetic characteristics. Best possible survival chances for the child, who in early years of development is dependent upon its mother, requires the best possible survival chances for the mother and the best possible choice of father based on his abilities to provide for the survival needs of them all, since the woman becomes relatively incapable of working for survival needs during the later part of pregnancy, and is properly preoccupied with nursing and caring for the baby during its infancy, a job for which her body has been uniquely differentiated, while the man's undifferentiated body remains available for general survival tasks.

The essential sexual difference is that men work for the survival-needs of the family, and women work as sexual consorts and as mothers who provide the emotional-needs of the family, and initially the survival needs of the children.

Omni magazine did a recent study around the world of all human cultures, asking people what was most important to them in choosing a mate. In every culture and race, men wanted beautiful attractive sexy women (who look like they're ready to reproduce), and women wanted wealthy men (capable of supporting the survival of themselves and any children they might bear the man).

The vast majority of cultural differentiation between women and men (their feminine or masculine gender roles) is based on biological mating priorities.

For a female, the manifestation of her biological priority to attempt maximum survival of her genetic material dichotomizes into two objectives. One is to attract the most physically fit (dominant) male to mate with her, thereby selecting the most likely to survive genetic material for her offspring. The other is to convince the wealthiest of males (possibly plural) to support her and her offspring. Thus the female biological priorities support polyandry. That which she has to offer to buy these with is her physical attractiveness (sex appeal), and her mothering skills. Her mental and spiritual qualities may enhance both her appeal as a mate and her mothering, but are of lesser importance.

For a male, the manifestation of his biological priority to attempt maximum survival of his genetic material dichotomizes into two objectives. One is to mate with and thereby hopefully impregnate as many females as possible. The other is to commit his survival resources to the support of at least one woman and the offspring he created with her, for as long as it takes for the offspring to become independent of those parents. Thus the male biological priorities support polygamy. That which he has to offer to buy these with is money with which to purchase their survival needs. How he gets that money is relatively unimportant, but the more of it the better. While emotional and spiritual qualities may enhance his abilities, both as parent and as mate, they are secondary in importance to his physical and mental abilities to earn money.

In short, we find that sex appeal is the prime determinant in a female's desirability and wealth is the prime determinant in a male's desirability, for the purposes of maximizing the chances for survival of their genetic material. Reduction of this to the lowest form is quite obviously and simply whoring . The true nature of humanity is that all women are whores , and both men and women like it that way, though the name it most popularly goes by is "wife" and "marriage". Why outright whoring is so often illegal is purely a matter of patriarchal disempowerment of women.

Women are Sex Objects. Men are Success Objects.

Money, Survival and Sex

Money is a denominational form of energy used as an intermediary in an exchange. Energy exchanged manifests primarily as goods or services. People's acquisitiveness of anything is motivated by either their need or desire for that specific form. To best make money which you may trade for the forms of your desire or need, is to combine your skills with others neediness or desire... to feed your needs and desires, be successful at feeding the needs and desires of others.

People's highest priority will always be physical world, physical body, needs and desires... i.e. survival and sex. Sex is the physical world's primary desire-based commodity. Other commodities are either need-based and survival related, and therefore of higher priority than sex, or are desire based but of secondary priority compared to sex.

Direct supply of survival goods to individual consumers is the world's (often) least ethical, most competitive business, and is based entirely upon the creation and maintenance of worldwide scarcity of some natural or manmade resource, and locating one's self or company in the distribution channel of that good or service.

In a world of abundance, there would be no profit to be made supplying individuals with survival items which were freely and abundantly available directly from nature. One of the simplest methods of creating artificial scarcity in a given commodity is by outlawing the commodity itself, which creates very high prices and therefore profits for dealing in that commodity, e.g. drugs and sex, which are desire-based commodities. Exchange of sex for money has been outlawed in most States despite it's continued ubiquity and despite whoring 's reputation as the world's oldest profession. Obviously the point of outlawing it was not to eliminate it, but to control its form.

No political structure long succeeds in outlawing survival need-based commodities, for the people will soon overthrow that government. However, most can usually be bought to permit monopolistic business practices which can abusively manipulate price through creating artificial scarcity.

Closely associated with the existing corporate based supply channels of survival need-based commodities are the existing political and social systems (governments and sometimes religions) and the world's patriarchal and class systems. The patriarchy is based upon the male ethos of competitive acquisition of rights of access to females to determine genetic survival in the long term, and competitive acquisition of rights of access to scarce survival commodities to determine short term survival. Accessories to these games are war (societally sanctioned murder) to coercively alter the outcome contrary to the normal results of competition, and disempowering of women (including outlawing whoring ) to keep them dependent upon men for their survival so that men may remain in control of the genetic selection process on the basis of their dominance and competitive abilities in acquiring survival resources.

In short, the male ethos is war, domination, competition, scarcity, control, etc. for the purpose of having the power to choose and enforce the survival of their seed. Within the context of the patriarchal system, women are reduced to sexual toys and caretakers of children. Because the patriarchy disempowers women, it also reduces women to the practice of whoring by other names, the form of which must not be promiscuous as in the profession of whoring , but instead monogamous, as sexual slaves and mates of specific men (wives), for the purpose of controlling access to them by other men, to prevent their being fertilized by other men than the one who supports her. The reason for this requirement is obvious, that a man not waste his survival resources supporting a woman who bears him the child of another, to not support a child who does not carry his genes.

Alternatives to Patriarchy

To carry feminine principles of cooperation, win-win solutions, and abundance forth into the world requires either dismantling or disempowering the patriarchy (which could only be initiated by men), or operating outside of, in parallel with, the patriarchy. The patriarchy has a strangle-hold on the supply side of survival goods, and is deeply, primally and emotionally invested in scarcity, competitive win-lose solutions (it's not enough that your seed survive, the other guy's must become extinct), coercion and domination as justifiable to enforce that genetic survival, and the justifiability of creating and manipulating scarcity in survival goods as a means of controlling genetic survival. In short, war, murder, scarcity and suffering are considered justifiable for the end result of genetic determination. Genetic determination is the highest priority in the planetary game of sexual reproduction. Only when the game has been played excessively, such as with Hitler's / Germany's mass annihilation of one race / religion / creed and attempt to replace it with another race, has there been enough outcry by the larger world community to stop it.

As existing societal, political, and corporate structures continue to deteriorate, disintegrate, and ultimately fail to provide for the survival needs of the people at large, people are forced to re-assume responsibility for their own survival, where previously they chose to be cared-for by the patriarchy, which actually abuses them, keeping them down to survival level, and slowly bleeds them of their very life through the system of interest purchased credit. People regularly choose immediate access to a lifetime of guaranteed mediocrity rather than deal with short term discomfort to have a long term success level greater than the societally provided mediocrity. This is of great importance in looking for opportunities to make money, and is the foundation of the extant patriarchal system. People don't want their own adult level power; they prefer to remain dependent children and have the matrix take care of them so that they can remain irresponsible for their own lives.

The Kali Yuga

The age we have lived in is one of darkness, denseness, and often despair... the Kali Yuga. This is an age wherein most of us are deeply lost in MahaMaya, the Great Illusion. We have largely forgotten in our daily lives that the physical world is only an illusion, a dream, which we have made manifest. We have come to take it quite seriously, as if we are powerless to change it, which we are, so long as we refuse to claim responsibility for having chosen it to be exactly as it is. Only by full assumption of responsibility for our own choices in creating both our individual reality, and our contribution to the collective reality, can we empower ourselves to change reality. But sadly, most of us prefer to let the matrix be responsible for us; we choose to be dependent upon "society", so that when things are not pleasing to us, or especially to others, we may claim that we are not responsible for things being the way they are, that the blame and fault fall upon the matrix. Then we may join the chorus of angry voices criticizing and blaming the matrix for his choices, his failures, rather than extending our own private sphere of responsibility to include not only the entirety of our own individual life, but also the entirety of physical reality. This is the essence of the age (Yuga) of Kali (the Goddess of the destruction of the Ego). Our Egoes love to play the game of irresponsibility.

"Don't blame ME, I'm not the one who chose this."

The alternative would be to become directly responsible for all the world.

"Think Globally, Act Globally"

There exists quite a dichotomy between "the Neo World Orwellian" envisioned by the traditional patriarchy whose values were formed in the Old (Piscean) Age, and the New (Aquarian) Age values of spirituality, cooperation, and abundance, when it comes to thinking about the future of our globe.

The Neo World Orwellian

The patriarchy is busy expanding to global proportions. It is controlled by the elite insiders of the world's governmental and banking establishments, those who run things no matter who you vote for. Because these men, and they ARE all men, have seized the power to define what money is on a global basis, they have commandeered power over all civilization. Their goal is of course nothing less than absolute power and wealth for themselves and their offspring, and total disempowerment and bare survival for the rest of humanity, their monetary slaves.

The vehicle of disempowerment is the interest charged for the use of the money they print. Should you be personally clever enough to be a creditor rather than a debtor with your private life, they've found a way to get you anyway through the taxes you "must" pay, known as inflation, which will only increase, because they've subverted all world governments of any significance to become debtors to the world banks. Yes, the heretical truth is that the enemy is The Bank. The entire world has become mortgaged to those who print the money.

"Money is Power"

"Power Corrupts"

"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

What do you suppose happens to those who have absolute power over the very definition of Money? The Golden Rule?

"The Man with the Gold Makes the Rules."

New World Paradigms

Only an overwhelming choice by the majority of the world population to end the tyrrany of the extant patriarchal system, to tear it down and NOT build something in its place, can save us. The core issue is that YOU continue to allow the men who run the "Federal" Reserve Corporation to continue to inflate the nation's currency of "Federal Reserve Notes" by printing more of them when they choose, and you continue to allow Congress to ignore the Constitutional mandate to denominate U.S. Dollars in gold or silver, and YOU continue to allow the government of the U.S. to mortgage your childrens childrens childrens childrens childrens childrens childrens future by borrowing money from private corporations (Banks) which charge interest on that money. The only re-empowering solution for the public at large is for every individual, every company, every city, every county, every state, every country to simultaneously declare bancruptcy ( Bank-Rupture ), and to make it illegal for anyone or any company to loan money at interest.

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

The New (Aquarian) Age

One of the seductions of the "New Age" spirituality is that one may absorb oneself in the pursuit of the spiritual world, as an escape from responsibility in the world of physical manifestation. While it is true that our highest purpose as individual spirits is our spiritual evolution, if that evolution were possible entirely in the realm of unmanifest spirit, we would not bother to incarnate in physical bodies. Our spiritual evolution is the result of living responsibly in our bodies in the world of manifest form, not by being airy-fairy out-of-body space cadets. And no, it doesn't do any good to blame it on being "blonde", either.

The point of being a spirit incarnate in a body is to own and deal with all aspects of both, to fully manifest the glory of our spiritual essence while enjoying and revelling in the body senses as well. Denial of spiritual essence has not produced happy bodies. Denial of bodily pleasures has not produced happy spirits. Fulfillment comes from filling until full, the body with the spirit, being fully Here Now.

Conclusion

We have far to evolve in a very short time, to transform our world from a scarcity based reality to a reality of abundance, grace, and ease.

- Angela Kahealani



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