Gender Space...
By dodoguy
@dodoguy (1292)
Australia
February 20, 2008 12:01am CST
Hola humans,
Just glancing down the list of discussions my friends started, something crystallized for me.
The two genders - male & female - are obviously different, they look different, they feel different, they even think different. But everyone knows all that anyway.
Here's something that really distinguishes the two genders, and helps to set the scene for how and why they think and act like they do - at least, by my way of thinking.
Have you ever got the sense that the two sexes live in different places, exist in different realities?
Well, maybe they do. Really.
Men live on the outside, and women live on the inside. Men's experience is exterior, in their interface with the material world, but women live in the interior space of their being.
This might be old ground for many, but it's illuminating for me - one piece in a puzzle, so to speak - a step closer to unifying the whole view of things.
It helps me to grasp the complementary nature of the two gender roles in so many facets of daily life and culture. Either one in isolation fails to capture the full potential of human nature.
It helps to resolve why one gender can so easily grasp what the other cannot, and vice versa.
It helps to explain the female flair for intuitive perception, and the male penchant for building empires.
We are spatial creatures, but we occupy complementary segments of Gender Space.
I'd welcome any thoughts on this - thoughts are things, and every little thing helps to build bigger things.
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
21 Feb 08
i think you are very meticulous in making this observation. yes, you are right.
the way of looking at life is different in terms of perspective from the point of view of men and women. i guess that women take things by heart, most men take on base values.
@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
22 Feb 08
Hi subha12,
You are so right about that. Women do seem to respond to things more inwardly than men, while men tend to express themselves more physically.
Of course, these are just generalizations, but do speak to the essence of things.
Many men are familiar with the volatility of their partners who occasionally seem to "explode" for no reason, after silently building up an internal world of conflict from interactions and events which the man never even noticed.
No doubt women can make similar characterizations about their male partners.
There really do seem to be two different worlds, which are occasionally brought into sharp relief when they clash. Much nicer when they coincide.
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@olivemai (4738)
• United States
29 Feb 08
It sounds familiar to me! When you add the third option, that of the mind of GLBT people, then you really hit the nail on the head! It is similar to the difference between right-brained and left-brained people.
