The way I have learned to handle my status as a female when I have no choice but to try to earn a living under vulgar patriarchal law is that I accept that most people in the world spend a great deal of their time when they are not functioning as people but as primitive lizard brains.
This perspective leads to certain amount of transcendence and is thus personally redemptive for me.
How does one handle a group of people who are not people, but lizards?
A certain degree of Buddhism is helpful, as one can understand that most people embrace nihilism, unwittingly.
Understanding this, one does not expect more from them than that. Unfortunately, one must also come to terms with the fact that one cannot reform the primitive lizard brain. It understands punishment, but one wastes one's time trying to reform this aspect of "human" nature. One cannot appeal to a "higher" nature when such a thing is simply absent, as it is, for instance, when people psychologically dissociate enough to commit gang rape.
Also beware of any metaphysical constructs of reality as these belong to the lower part of the mind, rather than to the higher part. According to this lower part of the mind, anything feminine is coded as "evil", in a way that disregards the attitudes or behaviour of any actual female person. Also, any behaviour that is deemed "masculine" is coded as marvellous, even if its effects are evil. (Women are blamed for its effects, where as lizard brained males revel in the glory of the act itself.)
As I said -- none of this can be reasoned with.
This perspective leads to certain amount of transcendence and is thus personally redemptive for me.
How does one handle a group of people who are not people, but lizards?
A certain degree of Buddhism is helpful, as one can understand that most people embrace nihilism, unwittingly.
Understanding this, one does not expect more from them than that. Unfortunately, one must also come to terms with the fact that one cannot reform the primitive lizard brain. It understands punishment, but one wastes one's time trying to reform this aspect of "human" nature. One cannot appeal to a "higher" nature when such a thing is simply absent, as it is, for instance, when people psychologically dissociate enough to commit gang rape.
Also beware of any metaphysical constructs of reality as these belong to the lower part of the mind, rather than to the higher part. According to this lower part of the mind, anything feminine is coded as "evil", in a way that disregards the attitudes or behaviour of any actual female person. Also, any behaviour that is deemed "masculine" is coded as marvellous, even if its effects are evil. (Women are blamed for its effects, where as lizard brained males revel in the glory of the act itself.)
As I said -- none of this can be reasoned with.
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