A Natural World Order: Part VII
A new/old World Order: 1, 2 , 3, 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17
New dialogue between men and women
Part VII of a series — Part VI here & Part VIIa here — on how pretending that men are equal to women leads us to all sorts of problems. See the rest of the subtitled series — 4, 7, 8, 12,15 & 16 above — see all series’ recap here and wrap-up here.
When Fifty shades of grey appeared in cinemas, the Hindistani Times (banner picture) posted a study from the journal Human Nature re-asserting male and female genotypes. Previous posts in this series propose a “benign patriarchy” where gender roles are re-asserted in a rational context: To see how we lost the Scriptures role of submissive women, look up “submisive women” in Wikipedia that sexualises the topic… not unlike the movie above!
This video confronts the issue head-on: the speaker prepares for the negative feedback as she bravely re-asserts gender roles in proper context. I transcribed key sections below, emphasis and textual errors are mine:
Treating men and women as being equal and virtually interchangeable dishonors both sexes and maintains this warped environment of competition and confusion…
We have denied the validity of gender roles. Gender roles create an environment where the glorious differences between men and women are honored. The closest we can get to harmony is by the acknowledgement of the differences, not their erasure…
Both men and women are made in the complete image of God, so we are equal in value and worth, but different in design. Men and women are simply intrinsically different, but their differences are beautiful…
When a wife submits to her loving husband, it creates greater harmony in the relationship. She is acknowledging that her husband is drawn to leadership and no masculine man is going to compete with her for masculinity in the relationship. If a woman truly allows her husband to lead, there are no competing paths in the relationship...
Late last summer read this poem to Cambridge Quaker Meeting where I am a Member — worship is in a circle with neither priest nor minister, each individual if called upon can stand up and offer their own ‘ministry’, as a fundamental Quaker tenet is that “God is in everyone”, so we quietly commune not unlike Community Building — read my poem here.
Note: my poetry is ‘stream of consciousness’ with few edits save spelling & grammar, rhymed but not always, & I do follow a format (see my collection here).
It encapsulates the entire series really, as a profession of my faith in a new world order — benign patriarchy — I submitted in this series, don’t you think? Feel free to comment below… and thanks for reading!
Update: See Part VIIa here to address Cambridge Quakers’ reaction to the poem.
