The Masculine vs. the Feminine

There is the image of women as secondary and in service to men, subjugated by them. This ordering is wrong. The masculine is the servant of the feminine. Masculine power and utility finds its ultimate expression in its service to the feminine. When masculinity is serving its own ends, by itself, it is like a snake eating its own tail.

Throughout history, the masculine has dominated. But this is not optimal. The world would be better off if we recognized the supremacy of the feminine, because the primary value — self-expression — is feminine. Masculinity is concerned with manipulating the world — domination and victory at competition are its highlights. But those values are empty when they are not serving a feminine end. The domination of the male can only be a means to an end. Domination in itself, without serving another ultimate end, serves no other purpose than to be dominant — to win at a competition that is a meaningless game — it must be hollow.

The domination and competition of the male has value insofar as it serves an end of cultivating the capacity for self-expression. For example, someone who works hard at work to get promoted, at a job that itself isn't furthering their self-expression, should do so with an end in mind of increasing the capacity for things that lead to more expressive things in their life. Just trying to obtain things of monetary value without considering whether those things are valuable, given available alternatives, can trap you into trying to ascend a Pyramid, and losing your values. Values we pursue should be anchored in the Flower of our genuine self-expression instead.

Ultimately, the Knight of the Masculine must genuflect before the Goddess of the Feminine, and accept in chivalry that his duty and purpose are tied up in service to her. I mean this metaphorically — any "knight" could engage in his own self-expression, but he's not "serving" the feminine in that sense — the feminine in that case is within him. So when a man is doing this, this is feminine, because the energy of self-expression is feminine. We all have these natures within us, regardless of our genders.

This is probably why cultures of masculinity often scorn self-expression, and men are repressed — for fear of being labeled soft for encountering feelings or dealing with them honestly, because they view it as feminine and unmanly. So, their intuition that there is something feminine about it is right, but they are wrong to scorn it, because they are amputating part of their humanity.