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Gender On A Collision Course!

What shall we call each other in today's times? Whatever name we use only confuses...

Society has schismed itself. It no longer is sure who it is, or what it represents.

In the last decade or so, the genders have lost sight of the fact that without one there would not be the other.
They have ignored that above everything else underneath the robe of the physical are spiritual beings. It is only when these beings don the robes do they assume a role. A role called female, a role called male. When they assume these roles, they also assume the role of interaction. They need each other.

What has society wrought? It has chosen to ignore the basic fact of the human role and has decided to re-do the matrix. Terminology that was used at the birth of man, at the birth of woman, has been relegated to the nonentity heap.

Mankind wrote the dictionary, now mankind is re-writing it.

Some are so adamant, so vehement in their need to abolish all differences between man and woman, that they have decided to abandon the basic definitions.

Society, when it began to use words to describe all that it saw, gave a specific definition to the words it created. In the beginning God had done the same. Man was man, woman was woman. In the dictionary of man, the same specific was followed and as more words came into being these also were specific. Man, Hero...Woman, Heroine...Man, Host...Woman, Hostess...Actor, Man. Actress, Woman. We could go on but this was the picture.

Some woman, in their effort to create a, what some would call a level playing field, decided that such specificity was harmful, was degrading, it made them second-class citizens, etc. etc. whatever, whatever. What did they do, what did they insist on?

They insisted that the classifications must be genderless. No more Host, Hostess, all were now Host. No more Actor, Actress, all were now Actor. No more Hero, Heroine, all were now Hero

There are none so blind as those that do not wish to see...

What happened here? These women have not given a boost to womanhood, they have written women out of the picture entirely. Who won in this societal gender game? The men! The women have been lumped into the category called man. They have disappeared from societies list as a gender. They have made themselves nonentities. Society has reinvented itself; it has become a culture without women.

Some women complain that they could not, can not penetrate what they refer to as a glass ceiling, so they decided to reinvent themselves. They demanded words referring to them be redefined. They decide to change their attire and don that of the male. They did many things to lessen the distincion in gender. They fought the battles, but lost the war. Ability knows no gender. Ability knows no glass ceilings. The playing field belongs to all. Who had the last laugh?

You don't make it because you call yourself Hero instead of heroine.

Genderless occurs only within the spirit of the inner.
Genderless cannot occur in the defining of the physical.

History has shown that women can be every bit as powerful as men without losing the word women.

It is time to change direction, it is time to take another path.

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