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Equilibrium

Sat Feb 28, 2009, 11:40 PM
In the last thousands of years, men and women, or even the third gender, were dedicating themselves to find a balance of genders. No matter the matriarchal society or the patrilineal society did not successfully issue a solution. Today, feminists are dynamical in the last reign of males’ dynasty. However, scientists and sociologists question, “Is the equilibrium of gender benefits our society?” According to new science discovery, the Bible, and some other traditional religions’ perspectives, the equation between genders shall not be existed. Gender is part of who we are, but not what society put on us. The way to achieve a florescent future being human being should be build on the diversifications between genders’ social statuses.

Hundreds years ago, Sigmund Freud has stated the connection between sexual impact and humanity. In the last decades, most people hiss his idea. However, the evident that sexual illusion is a part of humanity is uncountable. “Researchers used brain scans to show that when straight men looked at pictures of women in bikinis, areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated.” (Sample) This research result strikes the traditional view, which always claims that the social myth is the essential reason that is responsible to wild-spread sexualization of female images. “Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people, especially women, and because it fetishizes products, imbues them with an erotic charge – which dooms us to disappointment since products never can fulfill our sexual desire or meet our emotional needs.” (Colombo, 417) There intention of this statement is quite obvious – it claims that it is the advertising products help people objectify females. However, in the sexist test, “The brain scans showed that men who scored highest had very little activity in the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions that are involved with understanding another person’s feeling and intention.” The fact that sexists are easier to understand female as a person shows that the culture myth which cause gender separations came from those non-sexists. A mentally healthy male should see a female as an object in publications. The desires of reproduction and infestation are the source power for gender diversity. In another word, separating the social status of genders is a biological desire.

Although the forms of human culture are abundant and pluralistic in the evolution of human society and culture, the universality of female subordination is an existent fact, which not only exists in any kind of social and economic design, but also permeates in any stage of social development. This cultural character of gender difference is also vividly presented in ancient Israelite culture recounted by the Hebrew Bible. "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him." (Bible) According to the Bible, only males are created in God’s image. "And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. . . So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the manÕs ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man." (Bible) The females, on the other hand, are only created from a part of males. Apparently, the Bible clearly indicated the social status for genders – the females are complements for males. However, it does not mean that the status of female is lower. The story of female hero Judith, who killed Holofernes in Bethulia (Beth Aloa – means God’s land), is the representative of the intelligence and courage of femininity. In fact, if the Bible is read wisely; the interpretation will show us how genders stay in each position, and play brilliant co-operations to develop the society.

There are never lacks of attempts of breaking down the different between genders. In the Maya culture, Nakbe and ElMirador, as the center of the civilization, had popular third gender culture. “The third gender culture even becomes the main stream of the society in the end of this civilization. Mayapan, Uxmal, and ChichenItza were led by eunuchs.” (Fei) In Ancient China, Ancient India, and many other ancient culture, eunuchs and homosexual are wildly accepted by these societies. The reason is that within the development of social conscious, part of the society members does not agree with the biologic gender they were born to. While the metal desire were stronger than the biological demand, the free will from inside will determine the modification of gender position within the social status. The third gender is another approach of the same goal for the feminists nowadays. Gender status does not limit the free will of human being. Anyone who does not fit in the social position can always choose one way or another.

Consequently, the gender is a component of our society. Men cannot be pregnant, and women cannot impregnate. Physically, the diversity of genders is existed. The biological diversity demands the sexual objectifying of female bodies for healthy beings. The social contact cannot be separated from sexual impacts. Platonic love is only fantasy for minority. Various examples provide theologically evidential documents to support the gender status in any societies during the last epoch. A mosaic of third gender patterns in many civilizations since thousands of years ago claims the gender does not conflict with the will from a free being. Contrarily, only accepting the gender as a part of us, can we be free. The goal today is the pursuing of gender equilibrium, but not the gender equation. As the part of human being as well as human society, gender shall never be erased. By facing the different and benefiting from the function rather than refusing and denying its incontestable existence, we can receive a splendid future.

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