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Do women attain validation through men? Does a man attain validation through a woman? |
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Debate: March 2000 Do women attain validation through men? In times past, in times to come women as a group have desired a physical need in their lives, regardless of gender. That physical presence is validation that they indeed have something of worth to give. Clearly this should encourage women to strive the mundane limits offered. The physical requirements of a woman have been conditioned into us from an early age through examples such as magazines, and television programing. We recognize that society accepts the slim shapes of starving women. That in their torment to achieve kudos as women they must endure hardship and high expectations from a set peer group. It is fact the most spent on activity in the United States is the attaining of weight loss. Women want to be pleasing to the eye of the beholder. They will go through great lengths to do so. It is fact that over 50% of American women claim obesity. Why? Where is the control, and the self esteem that women as a entity are required to mandate. The control has been forgotten, and esteem has been lost in the wash. Gor, in all of its harsh reality of strength and utter right of passage for males, reminds us that we as women have a duty to ourselves in presenting a package that is complete, that is of strength. We can not afford laziness, or baggage in past revelations to detour us from what is our god given gift, femininity. We need to draw salvation from confidence back on our basic needs, and roots. We need to let go of the false power shifts that we can attain only for a short while. Those power bursts only leave us hungry for the utter taste of completeness. Women desire to be needed, to be pleasing to those peers, and men alike around them. They need the appraising glances and appreciation of their skills. Through out history many atrocities have been inflicted upon women. These early histories such as genital circumcision were practiced to keep a woman in servitude to her mate. The process often lead to death. Reflecting on ancient Indian custom, the art of the Kama Sutra, reminds us that women at an early age were trained in the art of love. They trained these women to be skilled in pleasing men. The principal behind the art of Kama Sutra was not the act of making love but the art of making love. Where do women fit, and why. Do they balance society with their validation through men? Two extreme opposites have been presented to you above. The thread that draws these two particular statements together is simple. Women have been a focus in a negative light, and in a light of productive application in society. The confusion comes from where their natural place is in this line of credence. We know through our philosophy the answer remains as constant as the stars guiding ships. We are at the will of the men in our home stone, our mates, our parents, and brothers. We are validated as women through our actions in which please these men we hold in reverence. We strive to be better then we are because we know un-conditioning from society bares us no harm. That indeed it is acceptable to be the women we were intended to be. Nature has shown us time and time again it is completely acceptable to follow a course of simple basic needs, and attain the level of simplicity in that act. My reflection on this question is yes, women benefit from the guidance of strong male figures, men of Gor. In that we can strive to levels that exceed the norm. We after all as women are not just everyday creatures. We are creators of life, and passionate beings entitled to the philosophy of growth, of need, and lastly of natural order. "Many Goreans believe that woman is nature's gift to man, that nature has designed her for his stimulation, pleasure and service. Accordingly, they seldom hesitate to avail themselves of this gift. Too, they are sensitive to the pleasures of power. They know the pleasures of power, and they honestly and candidly seek, appreciate and relish them. They know there is no thrill in the world comparable to having absolute power over a female. These feelings, like those of glory and victory, to which they are akin, are their own reward. Goreans do not apologize for such natural and biologically validated urges. Too, they do not feel guilty over them. Indeed, to feel guilty over such natural, profound, deep, and common urges would be, from the Gorean point of view, madness. The male is dominant, unless crippled. Without the mastery there can be no complete male fulfillment, and, interestingly, without complete male fulfillment there can be no complete female fulfillment." Page 147 Mercenaries of Gor Nyre © Copyright Nyre March 2000 All rights reserved
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Does a man attain validation through a woman? The Gorean philosophy tells us that it exalts the genders, instead of trying to neuter them. That it strives to make people great, instead of trying to force them into androgynous sameness. Status quo. It speaks of the biological imperatives between the genders, and that those deeply hardwired instincts are not dead, but rather, fully and gloriously within us, awaiting the opportunity to come into full bloom. For most, these ancient imperatives are buried beneath the modern veneer of our current civilization, beneath years of social conditioning that urge us to minimize our gender differences and ignore the primitive promptings within. Most pay heed to that conditioning, and carefully stay within the parameters set by typical society. Some, however, do not, and listen instead to their deepest feelings and sense of rightness. The basis for our hardwired instincts, the ones which stem from what is sometimes called the 'hind-brain', or 'lizard-brain', tell us what we must do in order to survive, not just as an individual, but as a species. It includes the 'fight or flight' reaction, and the urge to reproduce with the opposite sex. It encompasses territoriality, the urge to say 'this is mine, and not yours'. It calls into being the hot desire to rise to primacy over others, the exaltation of domination. Instinct requires no reason or rationale for it's promptings, yet by the simple fact of our continued existence and dominance over our planet and all other animals, instinct is validated. Time tested and proven beyond dispute that it has both merit, and place in our considerations. Instinct is something which we ignore at our peril, because it will not go gently into the good night of our society's political correctness. Perhaps the strongest of those instincts, beyond basic survival, is the urge to mate and to reproduce. This requires a man and a woman, together. Not a man and a man, nor a woman and a woman. Either of the latter combinations fly in the face of the instinctive imperative to reproduce one's kind, an imperative which has served most species well in the race for survival. Heterosexual sex is not merely a good idea, or a 'lifestyle' like the homosexuals claim, but more, it is a way to ensure continuation of the human race. "Strong men simply need women. This will never be understood by weak men. A strong man needs a woman at his feet, who is truly his. Anything else is less than his fulfillment. When a man has once eaten the meat of the gods he will never again chew on the straw of fools." - Explorers of Gor, page 12 As usual, the books have a very definite stance to offer for consideration, making no bones about the matter. Consider how many instinctive imperatives are taken into account in such a simple declaration. Survival, reproduction implied, territoriality, dominance. Is it any wonder that so many find the Gorean philosophy to be so fulfilling? Even in all-male societies, such as those found in prisons, when no women are available, it is not uncommon for some of the males to be required to take the place of women, performing as if they were women, in a twisted parody of womanhood. Like good and evil, without their natural compliment, males and females lose the perspective of the natural order beneath which humanity evolved, and the result is invariably askew and outside of the parameters which have been biologically validated over untold eons. Humans are primates, and primates are very social creatures, not given to natural isolation or solitary life. Men and women are inextricably intertwined in the dance of life. Perhaps it should not be surprising that, throughout the ages and in every culture, men and women have ultimately found their destiny, their generational immortality, and their personal validation in one another. "Nothing fulfills maleness like mastery. He who would be a man, must be a master. He who surrenders his mastery, surrenders his manhood." Players of Gor, page 176 - LionHeart © Copyright Feb 2000 - Lionheart All rights reserved
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