Spiritually aspiring women: If you’re seeking enlightenment, you need to assimilate your opposite gender-nature. Men and women each have male and female traits which must to be integrated for balance, stability and further personal growth. That is part of the process of ascent in consciousness to the nondual state. My comments are offered as guidance and instruction for that.
Part of the difficulty for women in doing so is the simple failure to recognize and acknowledge the existence of a part of them which is psychologically masculine. That, ironically, is also due to the feminist movement. While the movement has served humanity well by (1) protesting the sexist, uncivil and unjust behavior of oppressive males and the way they have institutionalized their presumed superiority, and (2) by demonstrating that intelligence is no monopoly of men, the radical feminist wing of the women's liberation movement has also largely and loudly denied basic psychological differences between men and women. It says any sexual distinction is intolerably discriminatory or, what amounts to the same thing, it defines traditional masculinity as a form of mental illness and seeks to "cure" it via childrearing practices intended to eliminate gender stereotypes, especially for boys.
That misguided view seems to be held by many spiritually aspiring women.
— From the Introduction
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