Comments on: What is masculinity?

By: Ramon

Ramon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:28:19 +0000

Well that explains it I do understand. I feel like the warrior needs to be there more me aswell but the lover archetype holds a very special place. If not there is no heart, no joy, no ”color” pursay, then life and death even are but an empty shell.

By: Eivind F S

Eivind F S — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:21:35 +0000

Great feedback, Ramon. The article is rather old and when I wrote it, the Warrior archetype was the most important to me personally. Right now, however, the most important one is the Lover. I'm going to think about revising it.

Thanks.

By: Ramon

Ramon — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:22:04 +0000

With all due respectit seems to me as if the above post describes man as being rather dry and lifeless. As if this and only this, emptyness, killing, logic ect.. While I do Agree this is an apsect of man, what you have described is the warrior archetype pretty much and nothing else, maybe a little king but in the shadows. I am aware that you describe masculinity alone and not the total man. I guess in order to put this in perpective it may help to havehe role of the article that descrbes (in your opinion) the anima/inner feminine in an article. Tis articole in my opinion does a disservice to your all to important cause.

By: Hrabba

Hrabba — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:34:51 +0000

Tenkte eg skulle/kunne bruke dette som referanse i en oppgave eg holder på med innenfor kjønnsstudier eg…. ;p

By: JQDQD

JQDQD — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:49:52 +0000

I feel like masculinity is a lot simpler than this. I feel like masculinity is the “seeker spirit” in us. It’s the drive to explore, make, acquire, change, build, do. It’s penetrative. It mirrors our sexuality, and why wouldn’t it? We’re talking about a largely sexual construction. Just as masculine sexuality identifies what it wants, prepares to take it, and then goes inside of it, masculine behavior does the same. Objects in the world are gone into and occupied by masculine behavior.

What we fear then isn’t death, but barriers to entry. We fear seeking that which can’t be attained. We fear the experience of being left outside of the objects of our desire.

By: Eivind F S

Eivind F S — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:29:43 +0000

Hi there Yin and Yang,

I agree fully with your first paragraph. And then with your sentence “I believe men fear his inability to create what he is supposed to create,” I would add “before he dies”. I think you are definitely right that men fear not manifesting their life purpose and that they fear dying without having done so. But since the little deaths of change are much more immediate than the big death of the body, the guy withers away in comfort and the illusion that death is still far away.

My understanding is that many men live with the fear of being insignificant as their constant companion, but that they choose not to feel it. It’s as if they fear the death of their identity that will result from embracing their life’s work.

Eivind

By: Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:13:06 +0000

Beautifully defined! Thank you.

I agree with everything you wrote about masculinity. However, the only part that I don’t necessarily agree is where you said, “there is nothing more than death that he fears.” I am not so sure if it’s “death” that he fears most. I believe masculinity is about turning the intangible into a tangible reality. “Feminine” do this by giving birth (= creating another human within herself). Masculine, on the other hand, have the need to do this by creating something outside (external) of himself.

By this definition, I believe men fear his inability to create what he is supposed to create. His biggest fear is his existence having no value to the humanity by his lack of potency (ability to turn the intangible into a tangible, which is an act of creation.)