S t r o n g W o m e n**
Humanity is just coming out of a time when men dominated the world, and where women were counted for nothing, really, or just as slaves, servants, and wife's to breed children, who had to do as they were told.
As I have already covered in the text "The Primordial Woman", there was a war going on against women's dark inner powers; women couldn't be powerful, occult or sexual.
But at the same time, there also was a war against men's emotionality; men were not supposed to show weakness, emotions or to cry. They were expected to be in the role as the strong and brave masculine heros, which made it difficult for a lot of men to develop their feminine side, their emotionality and heart chakra. This instead became the shadow in many men, and this still needs to be healed and integrated in a lot of men to this day.
But in the past - because men were "pushed out of their emotional side" - it became very easy for them to slide into tyranni, hardness, narcissism and other masculine imbalances, such as predation and exploitation of women, because inner imbalances will always reflect one's external behavior.
The sexes were polarised into two narrow and opposite directions. Men and women were subtly directed towards playing their given roles, and live up to them as best they could, as society expected from them.
Even though women today have re-entered the world stage in almost every way, and many of the old structures are dissolving in exchange of new ones, we still need a showdown with men and women's deeper identity; healing of the old wounds, which have been passed down and inherited. We need to understand better who we really are on a deeper level, and how we go about unfolding this potential as men and women.
With the femininist movement, the anger of women came out, and pointed their fingers at mens masculinity, and threw shame after it. So now, it was no longer popular to be old fashioned masculine. But the women acted in anger without really considering the deeper cause behind it; the imbalance inside of men, which was causing the tyranni.
Therefore men could no any longer lean on that one leg they had to stand on. One could say that men's own tyranni hit them straight back in their balls. But to pass on the rotten egg, the shame and the suppression is of help to no one.
That's why men stand in a difficult position today, especially if they haven't/don't deal with the shame, and make an effort to reconnect to these two areas within himself:
The masculine self and the emotional self
, which is of paramount importance for becoming a whole, lovely and well rounded masculine personality. It's like salt and sugar in bread, both need to be added for the right balance and taste to be achieved:
1) Heart consciousness, compassion, empathy. Being in contact with one's emotions. Vulnerability
2) Masculine power. Strength, bravery, leadership. The inner warrior. Vertical axis, determination, firmness and discipline. Connected to one's higher purpose and direction in life.
For, if a man cannot stand strong in these two areas within himself, then what is he reduced to? Deviant, coach potato, "running away from women and emotions", phone addict, porn addict, gamer, abuser, narcissist, indifferent, bland, passive part of a relationship, where the woman is domanitating everything, primitive, withholding, afraid, "a straw in the wind" or manipulative.
None of these characteristics are expression of healthy masculine behavior, yet many men have one or more of these traits.
It has become the norm for a lot of men to have a passive role behind a strong woman.
A lot of men have now been reduced to a minimum, all while they do shady business on the side, as a way to soothe themselves, and as a substitute for all their inner holes and flaws, which they don't manage to deal with.