Aeyna wrote on Oct 10th, 2007 at 8:10pm:
I agree with you 100%! I think he was tuning something very masculine in that moment.
Maybe its more that this person was expressing ego, which is neither just a 'man' or 'woman' issue?
Maybe both women and men with ego are competitive (or rather 'ego' is competitive in general), but tend to express it differently, and with men and their overall and average tendency to greater 'yang' polarized and thus
projective energy, its simply just more obvious and noticeable?
On my journey through life, i've noticed a common pattern particularly with those who are overall imbalanced more to the Yin expression essentially thinking that 'ego' wise, that their shit doesn't stink as much, so to speak. This is because yin energy or expression, tends to be much more subtle, and inward directed, and not so obvious as the more Yang polarized energy/expression is.
This does not necessarily mean women vs. men btw, i've seen this both with women, and with men who are more imbalanced to the yin within self on the mental and emotional levels. Yes, on average, women do tend to be more imbalanced to the Yin polarization, just as more men do tend to be imbalanced towards the Yang polarization.
Going into more detail, relating to the paragraph above this and the last one, this can be illustrated well in the Zodiac signs of Cancer and Leo. Cancer is a feminine sign, ruled by the very yin polarized Moon. Leo is a masculine sign supposedly ruled by the more yang Sun (i believe its really ruled by Mercury and Mars together, and that the Sun is neither Yang, nor Yin, but represents an almost perfect balance, but that's a whole nother discussion).
Anyways, both Cancer and Leo are rather self centered and selfish (thus essentially "egotistical") in many ways, and yet Cancer isn't really known for this, and Leo is supposedly this personified or to the nth degree. Why the big difference in perception? Because Cancer's energies are so inward turned, passive, reflecting, absorbing, and subtle in nature, and Leo's are very projective, expressive, active, and much more directly obvious. Is one expression really better than the other, if both are at their core self centered and ego centered (speaking of the signs, and not of individuals born under these indications)?
Not to me, we just have a polarization and extreme comparison between ultra feminine (Cancer), and ultra masculine (Leo). Lot's of times, i've noticed that strong and imbalanced feminine energy being expressed from the false self, is EXTREMELY manipulative and unconscious/reactive/irrational in nature (and thus doesn't tend to be too honest or direct with self or others). And we all know the downside to strong, imbalanced masculine energy being expressed from the false self, since this is often commented on in our society lately, particularly by women and a percentage of gay men (and understandably so). Anyways, point is, ego is ego, no matter how it comes across on the surface.
We're all human, we're all souls, and if we consciously, completely, and always transcended the ego, we would consciously and always completely transcend the physical itself...