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What We Get Wrong About Feminine and Masculine Values | Understand Women
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Feminine and Masculine Values
Liberation
Human Values
Duality
Gender Stereotypes
Spirituality
Feminism
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to the idea that in the modern age, men are trying to become more masculine and women more feminine. He refutes this by pointing to phenomena like K-Pop, where men do not conform to traditional masculine stereotypes. He explains that there are two sets of values: the feminine and the masculine. However, there is a third, totally different set of values that we need as human beings, not as men or women. The feminine and masculine value sets, while appearing opposite, are actually two faces of the same coin and belong to the same dualistic plane. This is why it is easy for members of one set to adopt the values of the other, such as men wearing makeup or women trying to be like men. There is a lot of mobility between these two sets, which is evident in society. However, it is very difficult for people from either of these sets to endorse the values of the third, higher set. What is truly challenging, and what makes one a real human being, is to ascend to this third and higher value set, irrespective of being a man or a woman. True liberation is not found in a man becoming womanly or a woman adopting masculine values. The speaker emphasizes that this is a very important point in the current age of feminism, where many women believe liberation is about being or acting more masculine. Liberation is a third thing altogether. It does not lie in being a woman or a man, but in valuing what would turn you into a qualified human being—qualified existentially, not academically. This is what spirituality and all wisdom literature are about. He concludes by questioning if anyone is truly happy being caged in their physical and social value sets, pointing out that we remain trapped in a loop, hoping it will lead us out, which it won't.