Saturday, March 06, 2004
The Complementarity of the Sexes (cont.)
The Complementarity of the Sexes
(cont.) Many liberals would have us believe that the only difference between men and women is social, cultural, and some minor physical differences. Psychological studies show that there's more than that; that, in fact, men and women do think differently. They see the world in different ways. They interact with it differently, solve problems differently.
In fact, when God married Adam and Eve in Genesis 2, it wasn't solely so they could have children. Marriage makes two people one, not just in some metaphysical sense, but as a social unit which has a more complete understanding of the world than either one has alone, and who face it as a united front. A couple of two men or two women is incomplete. A single person, such as myself, is incomplete. There's not much that can be done socially or legally to change this reality.
I think one needs to be careful not to attribute to nature things which are the result of environment and experience (so-called "nurture" for short). I think the extent of early-age and compounded human experience results in people with very deep feelings and mental structures and dynamics which are not easily recognized for what they are, a result of environment + experience, not an inborn trait. I see a lot of ignorance in discerning which is which, I believe because most people tend to attribute the reason for anything that goes very deep in a person as something inborn. it might "feel" that way, that it´s always been there and that it wasn´t chosen or developed with time or early experiences (which later may be active in a person´s mind, but in an unconscious level), therefore invisible to the person and others around them.
That said, we do have two sexes, and how beautiful and wonderful that it is two and not a mediocre, one sexed world (a homosexual world is so lacking, the idea is really for people with a mental problem with heterosexuality). Only when we see people trying so hard to destroy heterosexuality, and how sacred it is, that it dawns on you that we must treasure heterosexuality and celebrate its beauty, now more than ever.
(cont.) Many liberals would have us believe that the only difference between men and women is social, cultural, and some minor physical differences. Psychological studies show that there's more than that; that, in fact, men and women do think differently. They see the world in different ways. They interact with it differently, solve problems differently.
In fact, when God married Adam and Eve in Genesis 2, it wasn't solely so they could have children. Marriage makes two people one, not just in some metaphysical sense, but as a social unit which has a more complete understanding of the world than either one has alone, and who face it as a united front. A couple of two men or two women is incomplete. A single person, such as myself, is incomplete. There's not much that can be done socially or legally to change this reality.
I think one needs to be careful not to attribute to nature things which are the result of environment and experience (so-called "nurture" for short). I think the extent of early-age and compounded human experience results in people with very deep feelings and mental structures and dynamics which are not easily recognized for what they are, a result of environment + experience, not an inborn trait. I see a lot of ignorance in discerning which is which, I believe because most people tend to attribute the reason for anything that goes very deep in a person as something inborn. it might "feel" that way, that it´s always been there and that it wasn´t chosen or developed with time or early experiences (which later may be active in a person´s mind, but in an unconscious level), therefore invisible to the person and others around them.
That said, we do have two sexes, and how beautiful and wonderful that it is two and not a mediocre, one sexed world (a homosexual world is so lacking, the idea is really for people with a mental problem with heterosexuality). Only when we see people trying so hard to destroy heterosexuality, and how sacred it is, that it dawns on you that we must treasure heterosexuality and celebrate its beauty, now more than ever.
