PORN IV

Here's what I think it happening - women have started to come into their own power.  We have started to assume ever more positions of power.  We are getting into politics and business.  We are beginning to have a say in the way the world is run.

I think there are men who prefer being in charge and who don't want to be usurped.  I believe that the power structure which has men dominating women and women subjugated to men and their desires is getting very, very worried that it is going DOWN.  And soon. 

Any organism's response to thinking it's dying is generally to give a last ditch effort to save itself.  Think of plants which are about to die - they will put out zillions of blooms then seeds in order to propagate so they can have their genes carried on ad infinitum.

So it is with these men who are currently in power.  As women are starting to move into positions of power, they are getting scared and are grasping to hold onto it.  Thus the incredible surge in denigrating pornography.  AND, to connect some dots here, thus the surge in legislation all around the country seeking to control women's bodies and their reproductive rights.  I'm not saying there's some huge committee somewhere deviously planning to take over the world again.  Rather, I think men all over are recognizing that women are, in fact, capable of running the world, and, if they do, it will be in a way fundamentally different than it has been being run.  I think men are afraid we'll do to them what they've done to us, so they'd rather do it to us first.

But I don't know any women who are interested in dominating men and in becoming exclusively in control.  I don't know women who want to castrate men and rend them powerless.  Women lead much differently than that.  We lead through cooperation and through finding ways to work together, through consensus.  We can do the male way of leading - just look at Hillary Clinton - she's amazing!  - but there are better ways to do things - gentler, less abrasive, and more effective ways.  Women are nurturers.  What would it be like to have a country where the leaders recognized the necessary priorities of taking care of people through education and health care and employment?  If we cared for our planet well?  If we helped others rather than competing with them?  If we listened to people and countries which were having an issue with how we do things?  What if we occasionally recognized we might be wrong?!  It can and does happen!

There are male leaders who have tried to lead this way.  But I think women are fundamentally equipped to lead differently.  I hesitate to write about the differences because then it could sound like I'm saying men and women aren't equal.  I believe we are equal, but we are also different.  Anyone with any insight into the human race can see that.

So I want to invite you who are reading this blog to consider ways in which the world could be run differently.  How would you like to see the world run?  What would you do differently?  How could you begin TODAY making that difference?  It is overwhelming to me to try to figure out how to make the world a significantly better place, but it isn't so overwhelming to take one small step like writing this blog to point out what I'm seeing.

I'd love for you to post here what you're going to do today or tomorrow or this week or this year to make a small (or large!) difference in the world.  The world needs your talents and your gifts.  I hope you will join me in envisioning a better place, a kinder, gentler world with more cooperation and less competition.  If we can imagine it, we can create it.