The tradition of submission
Posted by: Fats in: Wika at HirapI have always found it unacceptable the religion and the tradition of wives submitting to their husbands, but now it seems that such is the law of the natural (human) world only made difficult in our modern and un-natural society.
Although I am not a fulltime “career woman”, I think I am beginning to feel more deeply the loneliness and necessity of either abandoning a “career” or silently pursuing it under the weight of a relationship with a man that a woman chooses to keep. “Necessity” because only a woman can sustainably nurture the survival of the human species (unless society sooner reaches the perfection of the artificial surrogate in addition to the professional); “loneliness” because the path to submission is bare: the matriarchal world has been demolished for the domains of patriarchal males and females.
Under the tradition of submission, women are marginalized because our society of men and women has changed; society has discarded the support systems by which that submission could be honored and nurtured. Men likewise are disenfranchised because they have lost their balance through a loss of their female principle, they are made to fit into the asymetrical mould of macho society, consequently unable to honor and thus pleasure their wives in mind, body and spirit.
My ex-partner complained that we never gave enough attention to our relationship because after I have finished a project, another one just suddenly comes up. I thought he was quite right, so I said yes, after the current project, I will stop and focus on us. Yet when discussing my current work, he gets excited and wants now to engage and do a workshop that touches on his interests in programming and art.
I will keep to my word (I wish I can drop my projects right now were it not for things such as contracts), although lonely but I will consider it an honor to myself as a woman, and just let the man muddle through his own internal imbalances. I have given him my permission.
