The Sexes
Rabbi Dude says:
Men and women are different. Anyone who says otherwise is crazy. The attempt, in today's modern world, to equate the two sexes is nothing short of ludicrous. Men and women were created differently, so a man should not try to be a woman and a woman should never try to be a man.
Originally, both sexes were created together as one entity. The existence of the two as independent beings was then instituted when God removed the female half from this strange creature and made it into its own person. As such, there is nothing in the female psyche which is shared by the male, as it was removed entirely from the original joined entity and given to the female.
Men and women, in many ways, have diffculty relating. This is, in effect, a manifestation of the fact that men and women are practically speaking two different languages.* The way one's mind works is as dissimilar to the other's thought process as possible. What to a woman is cold and distant is to a man comfortable, and what a man considers excessively emotional is natural to a woman. So, too, what a man calls well thought-out a woman calls overly calculating, while a woman's idea of instinct is seen as impulse by a man.
Women tend to follow their heart and men tend to follow their head. Neither approach is right, nor wrong. Nor more right, nor more wrong. They are merely two different ways of looking at the same situation from different points of view and acting upon that perception by the method one understands best.
If only we could realise that this is the way we act--and react--then maybe the two sexes might relate to each other a bit better.
Then again, maybe if we realised that everyone has a slightly different point of view, we might all relate to each other a lot better.
* Interesting side point: some aboriginal Australian tribes had three languages: one spoken by the men, one spoken by the women, and a third spoken when members of the opposite sex needed to converse.
Men and women are different. Anyone who says otherwise is crazy. The attempt, in today's modern world, to equate the two sexes is nothing short of ludicrous. Men and women were created differently, so a man should not try to be a woman and a woman should never try to be a man.
Originally, both sexes were created together as one entity. The existence of the two as independent beings was then instituted when God removed the female half from this strange creature and made it into its own person. As such, there is nothing in the female psyche which is shared by the male, as it was removed entirely from the original joined entity and given to the female.
Men and women, in many ways, have diffculty relating. This is, in effect, a manifestation of the fact that men and women are practically speaking two different languages.* The way one's mind works is as dissimilar to the other's thought process as possible. What to a woman is cold and distant is to a man comfortable, and what a man considers excessively emotional is natural to a woman. So, too, what a man calls well thought-out a woman calls overly calculating, while a woman's idea of instinct is seen as impulse by a man.
Women tend to follow their heart and men tend to follow their head. Neither approach is right, nor wrong. Nor more right, nor more wrong. They are merely two different ways of looking at the same situation from different points of view and acting upon that perception by the method one understands best.
If only we could realise that this is the way we act--and react--then maybe the two sexes might relate to each other a bit better.
Then again, maybe if we realised that everyone has a slightly different point of view, we might all relate to each other a lot better.
* Interesting side point: some aboriginal Australian tribes had three languages: one spoken by the men, one spoken by the women, and a third spoken when members of the opposite sex needed to converse.
posted by Rabbi Dude at 5/30/2006 11:43:00 pm
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