a stand
for individuality and reason. When she does make a stand she is punished
for not fitting the role expected of her. Men will despise her. On top
of this she faces all the defeats and pressures involved in the exercise
of thought. For her, the exercise of thought is like stepping outside of
a cosy warm cottage into a cold and icy blizzard. She's just not used to
it. Therefore, rather than fail, and suffer, which she cannot stand,
cannot enter into and bear-up under, she steps back into the restfulness
of womanliness. Even here, she can still think a little, a lot more than
she appears to. Though she must cover up her thinking, repress it, not
let it come to the surface - not actually use it.
The human mind is born with the potential to enjoy the fruits of
analytical thought. Consequently the will to learn and conquer has a
seed in every human mind. So we see the stronger women becoming men.
Some women, however, were men from the start, having failed the
difficult transition from the "boy" of early childhood into the woman of
adolescence. Unfortunat- ely, masculinity in a woman, regardless of its
source, is rarely of quality; it explodes too easily in the form of
rashness. The masculine does not sit easily in a female brain: it tends
to overcompensate.
Adding to her so-called mystery, woman has an inbuilt bisexuality
resulting from her difficult formation. While a man is man all his life,
she had to grow from a boy into a woman. Thus she seems to alternate
between the masculine and the feminine. This leaves man puzzled as to
how he is supposed to behave towards such a double entity. For now she
is the hard and angry feminist, demanding equal rights; and now she
dresses in pink and frills begging for a man to overwhelm her.
She claims weakness, yet seems to have no shortage of strength. She
achieves this through love, her speciality, nay, her profession. For
while
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