Overcoming Women’s Stereotypes as the Inferior Sex

In this post I am addressing a major issue in the relationships between men and women, and I am going to argue that, if we are going to a new era on Earth, we need to overcome women’s stereotypes as the inferior sex, when compared to men. Due to the importance of this subject in the context of relationships between men and women, this is also a subject of the 3rd ray.

The Patriarchal Culture on Earth and the Spirit of Competition

There are few cultures in the world that don’t assign women a subordinate role; only a few so-called ‘primitive’ matriarchal cultures remain, which give women a dominant role.

The reader will notice the subtlety (or not) of the phrase ‘dominant role’ I used in the last paragraph.

One of the problems in the struggle for better living conditions in general for women, even if they are in the forefront, is the search for ‘dominance’ over men, that is, we are still in a situation where we want to replace male dominance with female dominance.

And although this is partly understandable, given the psychological mechanisms that are common on earth, which seek to compensate for some kind of injustice suffered, it is not the solution that can balance the roles of men and women in today’s society.

The ‘dominance’ of one sex over the other only feeds the spirit of competition that is responsible for the exclusion of one or the other sex in the various activities and roles played by men and women. What is needed is a perspective that goes beyond the traditional and stereotypical roles that have been culturally rooted for thousands of years and that define rigid roles for men and women.

However, for such a view to be possible, we need to accept and recognise that men and women do not have fixed roles by nature and that these are assigned by society and culture, when past societies were based on the dominance of women by some men.

Education and not ‘nature’, has defined the image corresponding to the role of ‘being a woman’ or ‘being a man’, based on outdated values that western religions have been perpetuating for thousands of years, with the aim of subjugating, devaluing and diminishing the role of women.

In the 21st century society in which we live, such an image does not correspond to reality, in which women have proved to be much more than a ‘reproducer of the family lineage’ and the ‘obedient and voiceless servant’ of the men to whom they are the wife, mother, daughter, and so on.

Perhaps this is why many career women feel the need to prove that they are ‘better’ than men, at work and in socially accepted roles.

They do this because they recognize that they must work much harder than men to prove their worth, and in most cases, even though they perform their duties better, they earn less and are much less recognized than men.

But this ‘spirit of competition’, born out of the frustration of so many women at the lack of recognition of their rights over so many centuries, does nothing to improve relations between men and women, especially in the family, for example between husband and wife.

What we need, then, is a new generation of men capable of recognizing that gender difference does not imply inequality of rights between men and women, because it is irrelevant to the issue. We need to overcome women’s stereotypes as the inferior sex and accept equality between men and women.

Sex’ is not a matter of ‘human nature’, it is a secondary quality in the definition of what it means to be ‘human’ and the right that all human beings must see ‘equal rights’ recognized for all. No one is more or less human because of the sex they are born with.

Cooperation Between Sexes Is More Productive than Competition

We need to educate our young people, boys and girls, to learn to respect each other as ‘equals’, regardless of their birth sex.

Fortunately, this is already happening in many societies, and no one is surprised to see women doing the same jobs that were traditionally reserved for men.

But in many others, women continue to be discriminated against and denied some basic rights, such as the right to education, the right to a career and the right to live independently, without the need for a man to control their lives.

Too many women in today’s world do not own the wages they earn because it is controlled by men to keep the yoke over them. It is time to overcome women’s stereotypes as the inferior sex in these countries.

In these countries, women’s freedom will probably take some time, but it is up to women who live in societies that respect their rights to set an example and show that the movement for equality started by a few will eventually spread to the rest of the world and to other societies, as has happened with so many social achievements throughout history.

However, there is still a lot to be done for equality and justice regarding women’s rights in Western societies and we will have to continue the work already done.

In Master Paul the Venetian’s words:« You have had a process that has made some progress towards liberating women and giving them equality. We can discuss whether this process has given women full liberty and full equality, and I will be the first to say it has not(…)»[1]

Master Paul addresses this issue because the inequality that still exists between men and women increases the spirit of competition between partners and between men and women, leading to a mentality of “pointing the finger” at the other for everything that goes wrong, and even ending in separation between the two.

The ‘spirit of competition’ was born on Earth a long time ago and is fed by a conscience that does not take responsibility for itself and always looks outside itself for the cause’ of everything that goes wrong.

This mentality that always points the blame at the other person only shows division and separation, to the point that, in some couples, the resentment is such that it leads to separation and divorce making stronger women’s stereotypes as the inferior sex.

And this completely prevents men and women from balancing each other in the complementary role for which they were created, which is not to be antagonistic to each other, but to help and complement each other in all aspects.

Men and women relate to each other in order to grow together – those who choose to do so, of course, for each individual has a feminine and masculine aspect to their being, regardless of their gender. But for the majority of men and women it is easier to find the opposite polarity in another being.

Certainly, human personality is not limited to the sexual polarity with which one is biologically born, nor am I making that reduction here, a woman can have a type of personality that others see as ‘masculine’, just as a man can have a personality that others see as feminine, and we maintain gender identity.

I will say, however, that we need to focus on the innermost spiritual identity of our being; to feel a more lasting balance – our identity has a masculine element- alpha -and a feminine element- omega.

The alpha aspect is the I am Presence; the omega aspect is the conscious you.

While we live on earth, we must deal with the parameters that exist in the collective consciousness. But we also know that equality of rights between men and women does not result from the mere choices of a particular culture, but from rights that transcend cultures and are given to us by the Creator.

And when we contribute to the recognition of equal rights between men and women, whatever their particularities, we contribute to raising the collective consciousness of the planet. In this way, we also help to change the lack of recognition of women’s rights in societies where inequality is still prevalent, and help to overcome women’s stereotypes as the inferior sex.

[1] The Mystic Initiations of Love, dictated through the messenger Kim Michaels, p. 86