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Sep 30Liked by Jewell Starsinger

"But girls are nice!" When I took karate under Bill Wallace (look him up) he told the class that females are a lot meaner than males, and that one (or maybe all) of the martial arts (I think it was kung-fu) was greatly influenced by watching female animals protecting their young.

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It may be that I have a calling! Tell the truth about wimmin. Girls are not as we seem. Being smaller and softer makes us subversive. And making babies is hard work. Once a girl does that, she is never the nice girl again.

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I don't want to be married to a "nice girl." I want a woman who will attack, with claws and fangs, anyone who dares to put me down! And this is real; it actually happened. Before my wife had our children, she was an innocent dumbass, and did not really understand men or how they were coming on to her, and trying to use her. After she had our children, she became a "real person." And I hope that I have, also. As an artist, I have a lot of the "feminine" in me (at least in our culture). But I am not soft---I work out in the hot sun, on my rental properties, and I once had a room-full of trophies from karate tournaments. It is a complex subject . . . but women are better if they have a few lines in their faces. Men are better if they stop being controlled by their willies.

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Sep 30Liked by Jewell Starsinger

This is all interesting and informative but in my current retired life I am searching for meaning. Not sure what anything means. Not sure i ever knew??

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That's a great question! Meaning is a personal choice. My goal in this essay is to show people how we humuns have misinterpreted the essential qualities that create reality. The idea that a dark Feminine trope is a raper-god, misrepresents my understanding of the Tao. The feminine is the physical, darkness that incubates. Pluto is feminine. She does rape, she smothers.

I think that my obsession with pointing out my perspective is designed to help feminine people understand our power. We have lost so many of our Archetypal Role Models, that reveling this powerful underworld Feminine trope matters to me, to help myself and all people, including men, who have been given the impossible task of acting out as if they are female.

Men have it worse in a way, because they are projectors in a reflector body.

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