BIG MAN: A Wake-Up Call for Women

Chapter 7 - Head of the Household

Last night I watched a program on television about England's Queens which gave an incredibly accurate insight into religious patriarchy and blatant sexism. The Kings and establishment of the day regarded women as unfit to rule, on account of our 'lack of rationale' and inability to participate in physical combat, and yet, we have instances throughout history of women on the battlefield. Historic findings recently revealed numerous accounts of female Viking warriors. We also have Joan of Arc, a 14 year-old farm girl who led her country to victory against the invading English army. There are many other accounts of women holding their own on the battlefield, and while it can be very generally stated that women are physically weaker than men, this has never stopped women from successful conquest. The program also went on to state that women who ruled were a repugnance to nature. England's early Queens were referred to as 'She-Wolves'.

We are deemed incapable of ruling due to our lack of rationale and reason, because we emotionalise, and might therefore make bad decisions. May I ask, in what way have men demonstrated themselves as good rulers? In 2015 we are in the midst of a global crisis. Our air is polluted, our water and food have been poisoned, the stock market reigns supreme while 1% of our population hoards all the wealth. The common man, the simple family unit, struggles to survive on a minimum wage. The cost of living rises while our pay packets do not. Women are still paid less than men for doing exactly the same job. War ravages countries for financial gain. Violence against women has reached revolting proportions so please do tell me, in what way can any sane person regard men as good rulers, when these types of men are the cause for a planetary crisis in every single area worthy of deep concern? Perhaps the answer is obvious, but let's investigate why a woman's emotion, and abiding intuition, may not in fact be a weakness when it comes to good governance, and let's place the context of this right within the home.

When he assumes your emotions are a sign of instability, could it not be the case that he simply misunderstands them? And if this is the case, would it not make perfect sense to conclude that he does not have the skills required to understand the deeper level of reality lying just underneath his practical, black-and-white world? How smart is he really, if he doesn't understand you? When your intuition hints that something is amiss, in whatever situation, but you fail to find the right words to clearly label it, would it not be his job, in his amazing state as a perfectly rational man, to interpret your intuition and give it words? Or does this 'good ruler' merely dismiss it? Perhaps he thinks he knows better. I personally have lost count of the number times I have had my intuition dismissed by a man that 'knows better', not to mention all the instances I have observed this happening to other women.

If a woman's intuition is such a powerful thing, this connection to the unseen that everyone would benefit from establishing, why is not taken seriously by these powerful splendid leaders in our homes? Why is it regarded as frivolous folly by apparently intelligent men? Could it not be that one thing, if respected, that might assist them when making decisions, whether that be in the home, or in global politics? Is it not only a woman's intuition, but also her intelligence, that has shown men a proper course of action, to avoid disaster, or prevent the dog from being run over in the driveway because maybe he should just .. shut the gate? And yet in so many instances where we speak up in this regard, we are shouted down by the Big Men who refer to things as insulting as 'you are irrational' or 'but you're a woman how could you know that you must've fluked it, it's a load of rubbish what you're saying anyway, because I am a man and I know better' when attempting to maintain their dominant position either in the home, or in the arena of global affairs?

Is it not men who have led the world into the terribly destructive realm of lust for money and power, conquest, death, disease, poverty, violence and stupidity, the likes of which we have never seen before? Has it not been proven throughout the course of history that not a single civilisation has survived when governed by men? Have they not brutally invaded native lands and peaceful countries purely for conquest and financial gain? If we consider men to be better rulers than women, on what basis could we assert such a claim when all the evidence proves otherwise, and especially when women have never been properly asserted the right to govern and fail, to prove you right? This archaic belief belongs in the garbage along with every other backward and entirely hypocritical mind-set perpetuated by men who clearly do not have the slightest clue on how to govern anyone.

Religion espoused that your man is the head of the household without supplying any rational reason as to why. That any leader of any institution could espouse such a thing without first understanding it himself would surely indicate yet another massive stupidity on his part? Are we to assume, us crazy women, that we are to believe something purely because these men of co-called authority say it? Would that not be irrational? Such blind faith in the unproven words of one man, or several scholars? Our intuition believes otherwise, not only that, but our intelligence knows better. When he takes command and 'lays down the law' without explaining how his decision serves the best interests of everyone involved according to pure reason, is he equipped to make these decisions? Or is he merely following the path set out for him by the same mind-set so prevalent in archaic Britain? Does he beat his chest in this manner out of some primal need to re-establish his connection to the ape?

This is the man who is physically stronger than you. Remember this before you challenge him on his stupidity and hypocrisy. There is very little likelihood that he will warm to being questioned, fall at your feet, declare you queen, and worship your intuition and natural intellect. You have a womb, and this is the one thing that scares him most, not because he doesn't want children, but because your body and your essence are vessels for life, portals to realms of intelligence he is yet to access, obviously, and perhaps he never will. This may seem a large jump to make, from on the one hand speaking about our intuition, rationale and intelligence, to making the connection between these things, and the womb, and perhaps this points us in the right direction to nailing the real reason why men become abusive, mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, dominant, and have done for thousands of years. The truth has never been more obvious than it is right now.