Trouble with my romantic relationships

[Meerie]

Neither do I.. But not because they're women. Just like a man is not powerful just because he is a man. An individual in a situation has power or not. And this comes from a deeper level of identity and from context. Feminity or masculinity is a color to the power but not it's source.

Agreed

A friend of mine, female, told me this story of how when she goes out with 2 of her best friends they always try to see how far they can get guys to go. Bend over, show that a$$, pose boy, now buy me a drink. And they literally have dancing monkeys at their table. Guys coming over standing in line to hand over their testicles. We could call it girl power, or we could call it castrated men syndrome. When I asked her what guy she'd get serious with she told me: the one who gives me the middle finger when I do this.

help.. what kind of female friends do you have???

It would be good if they could be all things too, including things that used to be traditionally female. Without becoming replacement women. I want to see macho guy nurses. And american football type seamsters as much as I want to see female police officers and astronauts.

Can you not almost see the banner I am waving about ? .

yEs of course you are right! None of this should matter. It is the person not the gender that matters. However things are changing I am positive about that. And there are male nurses too… I am not sure about the macho part though . Being macho and a nurse seems to be conflicting. Unless he leaves the macho part at home and uses his “soft female skills” in his professional life LOL

Well, I'm not a woman. I don't pretend to know what it's like to be female.

Well I am sure one part of you knows, I guess you had many incarnations as a woman just like I had many as a man… In fact the one past-life regression I was having dealt with an existence as a man.

You know, I think the perfectly balanced man or woman is one who is at ease with both his male and female parts. For many men it involves getting past left-brain logic-only approaches to life, developing their intuitive right-brain skills. Soft skills, emotional intelligence for example.
For women it is often about learning to speak up, getting past the “I want to please everybody and be a pretty girl so everyone will love me”, standing up for themselves, developing elbows. Male characteristics.