You're expressing exactly what i think is BS. And i didn't say anything about passivity.
You didn't, but society in general does, which is why object to the way you expressed it.
It's hard not to do it, but I really don't equate masculine and feminine with men and women. I equate it with energies, archetypes, natural forces. Gender can embody either. I'm just saying that this "age" is dominated by what traditionally is considered masculine or yang energy.
Ok, I'm with you. But the way you said it up there sounded like women should embody Yin and men should stick to the Yangness, and that's where I objected.
And my rant was trying to separate women from the term feminine and point out that presently women are much more aligned with masculinity.
Ok, I accept that. Or that they are becoming aligned with what masculinity has been identified with.
And my point is that both men and women need more of the feminine energy to balance us out.
Ok, I see where you're coming from.
But this is an old issue. For example, according to the Maya, the 5th age that we're entering now is one of neutral energy, where the first was yin, the second was yang, the 3rd was yin and this, the fourth is yang. This coming age is to be not a unification of the two, but rather an absence of either. Don't ask me how to explain that one, it's a concept I feel but can't logically explain.
It actually makes sense to me.
And yes, I know you don't care, and that's ok too.