Sacred Masculine II
Moving the focus off toxic masculinity
When @youenn_7 issued a prompt to write about the Sacred Masculine, all I could think about was toxic masculinity. In my life, it’s been important to study men and their behaviors in order to avoid becoming their victim — a goal I didn’t always achieve. The story I wrote received a lot of attention, perhaps because in a violent world rampant with misogyny and homophobia, people are honestly interested in the central question. What is sacred about masculinity?
But after writing the piece above I attended a film class on Zoom with Movie of the Moon Club that discussed feminine principles in ways that surprised me. The experience got me thinking about the male/female dichotomy and inspired me to come back and try answering the question again: What is sacred about masculinity?
Start with the sacred feminine
Teacher Terry Ebinger provided this list of feminine principles before we watched and analyzed The Piano. These are not traits that every woman has. They’re traits that every one of us —…
