Men shouldn't be stopped for dressing as they choose.
But first, in fairness, let's acknowledge this: those symbols carry history. They are not empty. They come fron lives that have carried load, risk, pain, regulation, consequence and history.
And we haven't even celebrated women properly yet.
A culture that measures masculinity through conquest, heirachy, extraction and supression will ultimately destroy us
I would like to invite people to pease stop flooding Reddit with gun photos. Outside the US, it doesn’t read as cool—it reads as strange and a bit disturbing. If you grew up around it, you might not see it, but most of us didn’t.
The Gudestrup Cauldron is a half remembered pastiche.
Created during the late iron age just before the time of Christ. It harks back to the Indus Valley Seal: a seated three faced female - compused among wild animals.
Abrahamic religions used these tales of wonder and awe to feign physiological composure and create narratives of eternal life, then to instill obediebce and then domination of nature.
Gudestrap Cauldron: When the Iron Age Turned Us Against the Earth
After expansion, contraction is inevitable. Return and consolidation create strength and depth.
Our relationship with the body changes at puberty. Before that, we all move the same way - heads on sticks, acting without monitoring.
Girls don't get to stay like that.
Puberty pulls our focus into our body. Periods arrive disruptive, demanding attention - and for years, they force us to a level of physiological awareness.
Boys continue largely as heads on sticks.
Men - and by extension medicine- have never had to develop the same level of internal awareness.
That gap shows.