does women's greater preocupation with self image result in a more entrenched psychological self image.....

Question

which will mean that they are less likely to break apart the fabricated self that we all construct, and out of whose eyes we think we are looking out of at the world..... and so are less likely to produce spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre....or does being more emotional make the self image less concrete to start with?

Answer 1

I do not believe that women have a greater preoccupation with self image. Do you call makeup and hair dryers as a preoccupation? Emotional, yes. It is that ability to feel deeply that will enable us to view the world and the people in it with compassion and awe.

"Spiritual philosophers of the highest caliber" is subjective. I believe Maya Angelou to be such a person. Do you?

Answer 2

Women are forced to be more preoccupied with self image because men are visual creatures and there are certain societal standards of beauty that we all have to fight against - depending on the society. Some cultures value women who are heavier set. I have a LOT of trouble gaining weight, so I'd be doomed. The U.S. values stick-thin women who look like they're still 13. While I'm a very young-looking 31, I'm still 31.

We're less likely to produce spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre because until the last century we were horribly oppressed in the West, and still are in many other places on the planet. I know that I didn't score any points with my male peers growing up in the 1980s because I was smarter than them. Men have long feared and oppressed "thinking" females. For example, the phrase "rule of thumb" comes from Renaissance times when the law stated that you were allowed to beat your wife so long as the stick you used wasn't thicker than your thumb. Why I love you jerks the way I do I haven't yet figured out, but guys like you certainly make me rethink my affection for the males of the species.

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Answer 3

This is just a dressed-up, 'Daily Mail' image of women. Women may be 'more emotional' - but we are more intelligent and more 'rounded' because of it; we're better communicators than men, by far; we're better grounded in reality - and increasingly women ARE calling the shots.
Having emotional intelligence does not make women - in the generality - less 'secure' than men. On the contrary, all the really strong personalities I know are female; we have a complete freedom of expression in society, for one thing, and men do not. There's little these days that has to be 'fabricated', by social diktat.
And, when it comes down to it, what has the male compulsion to intellectualise and attempt to consciously 'plan' life ever actually achieved for us?
While men are engaged in 'planning' the next Iraq, or in philosophical introspection about the meaning of life, women are actually CREATING it, pal!!! (Even better: we're enjoying it!!!).
And there's everything to be said in having (like most females do) a 'short agenda'. Living in the moment and appreciating what you actually have, is a recipe for happiness, growth and fulfillment. It's 'living in real time' - the only life of any value.
Trying to intellectually manipulate life, constantly theorising about it, or spending every day worrying about what things might be like in 10 years time - yes, in general, we are happy to leave that to men: it's a recipe for personal and social unhappiness and complete disilllusion.
At this particular moment, by the way, where exactly do we women look for all this Enlightenment, provided by (male) "spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre"? The world as the rest of us know it has been shaped by war, disease, capitalistic greed - and leaders like HItler, Bush and Osama Bin Laden.....

Answer 4

SOME women's obsession with their physical image is only important during their reproductive years when their estrogen soaked bodies are subconsciously looking for males as suitable sperm donors for their potential offspring.

This is by no means a detriment to females making them less spiritual or capable of being "spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre", according to your male definition.

Women LIVE their spirituality, their compassion, their knowledge and wisdom of the world every day we breathe. It is innate in our intelligence and it is ingrained in our very fiber as we birth babies and raise young humans up to be GOOD adults.

Ironically, the "spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre", like Buddha, Gandhi, Jesus and others who you are referring to BECAME these great philosophers ONLY when they began to THINK LIKE WOMEN.

I would say that you men are the slower of the species to catch on to what we already know and already live. You have to see a manual written by a man in order to believe what we already LIVE.

Feel free to ask a woman any time you need spiritual advice from the true source of wisdom.

Answer 5

Estrogen gets in a woman's way as she seeks spiritual enlightenment. It keeps her rooted in the physical plane. After a woman stops having the monthly fluctuations, she is capable of transcending physicality and 'being' the spiritual essence. Then she can also transcend any understanding a man can have of the esoteric.

Answer 6

Whooooaaaa.. slow down there buddy. Very verbose question.

I think women focus too much on their appearance, and the world makes it this way, through fashion magazines and billboards- its everywhere....it is causing them to become "me me me" people- which is not good. Another tatic the enemy uses to keep people focused on themselves instead of God.

Answer 7

The philosophy section is down the hall, to the right.

Answer 8

I have found that ' WITH THE LIGHTS OFF ' they All Look the Same!

Thanks, RR

Answer 9

no it's just a way for people to feel that other people may approve of them

Answer 10

Perhaps.






P.S. Does anyone know what he was talking about? It lost me.