Masculinity is how you have hardworking men working on electrical cables, doing risky jobs, keeping the world functioning. And femininity is how you have communication, emotional empathy, connections among society and advocacy. When used for evil, masculinity becomes a sharp blade; Likewise, femininity can espouse words with a tongue like a dagger.
What is happening in society now, imo, is a consequence, not a condition. It is a consequence of gradual erosion of polarity, the divine archetypes of the Father and the Mother. In fact, it is almost deliberate and fabricated. You now see a three-pronged approach:
- Destruction of the Male virtue
- Destruction of the Feminine ideal
- Loud emphasis of the Middle
The first two have been happening for ages. I believe it started after demonstrations of uncontrolled and immature masculine forces - such as the World Wars and 9/11. There was a huge global aversion to the masculine force. Slowly, its power was disrespected and shunned - instead of channeling it into healthier expressions, it has been trodden upon and treated as taboo. “No, don’t stand up for yourself. No, don’t have ideas of your own. No, don’t have boundaries. No, don’t lead. We will stand up for you, we will give you ideas, we don’t need boundaries, we will lead you.” It’s almost political.
Furthermore, we have the feminine force being disrespected. In the past, the advocacies for women emancipation were real as there was real oppression. Nowadays, femininity is a joke and more of a first-world privilege due to the wrong things it focuses on. “No, you don’t need a man. No, you can do what a man does. No, you don’t need to be a weak female because that is equivalent to being a victim. No, you don’t have to blossom your feminine side. You can stand up for yourself, you can be your own man, you can be strong like a man, you can blossom your masculine side.”
The more there is division and identification with some kind of subgroup identity, the more divided the world becomes, despite how ‘homogenous’ the higher-ups want you to think. That’s because everyone becomes a sheep, polarity is lost, family units are lost, society becomes a disorganised mess moving in all sorts of directions with confusion. A divided community is easy to rule, govern and overthrow.
“Inclusiveness” and “homogeneity” is not the answer. Making everything the same, with ‘equality’, is exactly a dystopian future. It makes the world tasteless, bland and without any dynamism. This only leads to fewer couples, more breakups, and destruction of society with a declining world population (except in some countries where this first-world influence is not as strong).
What we need is recognition of diversity, of polarities. Because love doesn’t force you to change someone or force your ideals (or what you think is best for people) on others. Love encourages, allows people to blossom, allows polarities to flourish, and allows diversity in all kinds of ways (like diversification of ideas, beliefs, etc). What we have out there masquerading as “inclusion” is not love - it’s pride and ego.