How deep can you go?

 The only reason I have to have this conversation is because society has divided us.  If we collectively lived as conscious spiritual beings this issue would not exist. 

This is a difficult thing to express because of the semantics involved using words like male and female.  Not because it is difficult to understand but because it is so complex to express in language due to so many different abstract ideas floating about in our consciousness.  The other thing that makes this difficult to express is the fact that generally speaking people’s emotions are greatly tied into their beliefs about gender.  Here it goes anyways. 

Humans are products of their environment, literally.  I personally believe this statement to be a well proven and verifiable scientific fact.  All life on this planet is living evolution, something cannot be alive and not evolving, it just is not possible.  It just so happens that this evolution to one's environment occurs communally over time in our collective human consciousness, it is not simply some physical phenomenon.  Our immediate environment and the collective cultural environment both have an effect on us.  What I mean by this is, the actions of those in the generations before us affect us now just as much as those whom we live in close proximity with.  It can be taken a step further by realizing those on the other side of the country affect us via consciousness too.  What our country was doing two hundred years ago is still affecting us to this day culturally, which means it took a part in defining who each of us are as individuals. 

All of the ways in which we, in this current society see things, is through the lens of our past culture, through our collective lens in the present and our singular perception of the moment.  All of this is one thing.  Just because the thinking part of our mind attempts to separate them does not mean they can be separated in reality.  I personally have a past, a familial past, a communal past, a national past, and a global past; I am the summation of it all, and it is too complicated to deduce to simple single cause and effects; it simply is.  This may seem near to spiritual talk, but that is because it is.  To deny the spiritual side of human life is to deny it all.  I am not speaking of a god or some such thing as that, but of the connectedness to the Universe of which we lack ability in language to properly explain from one to the next, and we still seem to lack the conscious ability to grasp it all simultaneously.  I am the product of my parent’s upbringing and the culmination of 1000's of years of history pressed into this current society in which I live.  It is a ripple moving through the water of humanity as ceaselessly as the oceans pound the beaches of the world. 

If you could somehow follow me around at a ten foot distance with a magical camera you would see I spend a lot of my time liberating women from the chains of this patriarchal system in which we find ourselves trapped.  I do this because it was done to me.  When I was a child I was forced into a male role even though I have the soul of a woman.  By the way this does not mean that I am gay.  My biology dictates that I am only attracted to women; I personally did not have a choice in this matter.  Biology dictates sexual preference.  Spirit, or soul, dictates one’s being, one’s mind.  This is what I was speaking of earlier with the totality of a single human.  A female in modern America is the product of over two thousand years of patriarchal domination whether she wants it to happen or not.  Her soul is forever lost in a lie simply because there is no environment to adapt to that will allow her to be what she really is.  At this point in history it has practically been bred into her consciousness to such an extent it is impossible to set them free even with the realization that it has happened and is happening.  It would be like going to the Amazon jungle and asking a tribesman to speak Chinese, they don’t even know there is a China in the Amazon jungle. 

It is commonly accepted by a vast majority of people in the world that females are lesser than males in more than just physical strength, even if they do not “think” they are doing it.  I have lost count of the conversations with men who claim they are not sexist but are in fact sexist by their actions in the world.  The religion of Christianity has been the main enforcer of the male being the dominate gender in our American culture.  I have not researched further into history because in this modern sense, going back two thousand years is far enough to understand the reality of the moment in regards to gender role.  The reality is that men have so horribly suppressed women that women no longer know what it even is to be a woman; women are what this culture says they should be.  And men, even when trying not to be patriarchal, or thinking they are not doing it, are still doing it.  This current society actively enforces the suppression of the female spirit.

This creates a huge issue you see for the modern female and male.  From the day she was born she has been treated, mindlessly, as a secondary human to males, and the male has ignorantly believed that it is actually superior so much so that it suppresses all female traits within its self.  Why is this such a dilemma, you might ask?  How is the female to know who she really is, if she has always been treated as something else, if she sees herself through the same patriarchal lenses as the rest?  How can she see it any other way if she cannot find a male to treat her as an equal?  How can she ever fulfill her potential?  How can the male ever fulfill his potential believing the same lies?

If you read psychology books, anthropological books, any books really, you will see how women are one way and men are another.  This concept is expressed mindlessly because it is just accepted.  Generally speaking by the time a child is six years old, it has already been accepted and is generally never questioned deeply ever again.  The only reason it is so blindly accepted is because people habitually do what was done before without question.  It is so commonly accepted that no one really questions it.  But the truth is, women are raised to be one way and men are raised to be another way.  The real truth is, there is no difference between men and women in regards to mind, consciousness, spirit, and soul.  There are of course biological differences, but they end there, biologically.  I speak honestly and at the risk of ridicule, but those who know me best, those in closest proximity to me will swear I am a female, yet I have a male body.  This is typically called being androgynous. 

This current society does not recognize this culturally.  If a person is outside of the public educated norm idea of “male must be this way, female must be this way”, then a person is outcaste and labeled accordingly.  Luckily for me I don't care much about the opinions of ignorant people.  Don’t believe me?  If you are a male simply walk up to another male in a position of power and tell them you are a woman on the inside and watch what happens.

From the day we were born, gender bias has existed, but it has only existed because people believe the lies before they are old enough to really understand and question what is going on.  It has existed for thousands of generations, it has been pounded into us to keep us divided.  It is merely a tool that males use to maintain power.  It has nothing to do with reality.  From birth we have been told it is some one way, it is this or that.  But who has stopped and looked deeper than how it has always been to see what really is?