There is no difference between men and women – really?

There is no difference between men and women – really?   The threat to freedom of speech.

Men and women are equal, right?

There are people who declare in public that there is no biological difference between men and women and that our idea of gender – if we are a woman or a man – is merely a social construction, totally arbitrary. This is the most stupid statement I have ever heard and it reminds me of the subject of my last blog post on science as a belief system. People who say similar things have no willingness to look to reality, to take into account evidence, but their vision is obscured by belief and ideology. And there is no difference who is expressing those ideas and using their power to force it on the “real world”:  if it is a religious authority like the catholic church or some spiritual sects who insist on evidently untrue “truths”, or if it is a social political movement or an authoritarian leader of any group, countries included.

Postmodern ideas pushed into extremes

All truth is relative – except this statement

In a “green” society (quoting Spiral Dynamics, the levels of development) the fundamental idea is that there is no discrimination allowed. Everybody is equal, literally, and if you use some adjective to make a difference between one or the other, then you are judging, Discrimination, meaning to note the differences, is seen as judgment and devaluation. There are no differences, full stop. Hitler and Mother Teresa: no difference!?

Hence, there are no differences between men and women. And all differences which are still present in society have to be fought and eliminated. Minorities are equal to the majority and have to be treated as equal. Equal in what? Before the law, yes, sure, and in many other occasions. But humans are just NOT EQUAL to each other and that makes life so interesting. (Imagine everybody was exactly like yourself – how boring!)

As minorities are to be seen as equal, they have to be protected by special laws against the others who oppress them. And here it becomes delicate. When everybody is equal, so the logical consequence is that there ARE NO categories, no MEN, no WOMEN – and, with the same logic there shouldn’t be other categories like GAY or TRANS or whatever. But they – the people which make and fight these claims in the videos I post below) insist that THESE categories EXIST and that all other people have to do what THEY want them to do: they want to be addressed with “gender neutral” pronouns.

The confusion between grammatical gender and people

2 people on a bench who seem to be women, that means two “she”? Or “It”, or “he” or one she, one he, or…….

This is easy in German, you say ES = IT, and many words have a neutral status although they name a person/animal with a definite sex and gender, for instance “das Mädchen”  = “the girl”. English is the language with the least differences of gender visibility (nota bene: gender doesn’t mean anything about the sexual facts or orientation when we talk about language, it is a GRAMMATICAL gender). And now there are people who claim it as sexual harassment when you refer to them as HE or SHE. Do they want to be called IT? Well, no, they have their own idea how they would like to be categorized – although in their own terms categories don’t exist – and the other people need to know what their specific linguistic idea is to not end up to be VICTIMIZED by what others say.

Does this sound complicated ? Yes, it is. As soon as we don’t let alone language but try to direct it by force into a certain way, it becomes strange, if not a tyranny – as soon as the law tells you WHAT you have to say and what not. There might be some reason to not allow certain statements/words (like “Heil Hitler” – although I doubt that anyone would sue me because I have written these words down here). But telling you WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, what terms to use for not being in danger to be sued, well, this is not only ridiculous, this IS 1984 and tyranny, at least the first step towards it.

The Performative contradiction and the waste of energy.

The long story short: The classic performative contradiction: Fanatic GREEN declares that everybody is equal – but, at the same time, what I want and what I say is RIGHT – and you go to hell. If you mean it with equality and that there is no difference, then I am equal to you and take you to hell with me, right?

These are the ways in which postmodern societies waste their energies and ruin the culture. With FREEDOM on their flags, they destroy the freedom, at least the freedom of the OTHER – while “the other” shouldn’t even exist in their own ideology. It does exist clearly as the recipients of their personal and group narcissism. And if everyone was really equal, in all aspects, how can the other disrespect you if he/she IS YOU? Is it YOU who disrespects YOURSELF?

Taking responsibility for oneself – an art to practice for creating positive change

We are co-creating our experience in our life.

In a very weird way, this shows in real time what Psychology and Spirituality have found some time ago: nobody has the power over your emotions, but yourself. If you get angry about words which other people say to you – go and look inside and see the inner drama in yourself, the fight of the voices and take care of them and give yourself what you need so badly. Respect and recognition are the qualities which first you have to give to YOURSELF before you go and demand that others should give it to you. They simply can’t give that to you. You alone are responsible for your emotions, nobody else. And in creating the victim-perpetrator atmosphere you push others away who would have been happy to give you something which is in their power to give. You miss out LIFE by buying into destructive ideologies, under what title they ever might appear!

Postscript:

I wrote this article after I got to know the work of Dr.Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist who has studied in depth the rise of totalitarian regimes and has understood how they, one step at a time, were able to establish themselves and to oppress and kill millions of people with the right they drew from their ideologies. Peterson is brave enough to step up and lets people know what is going on in our present societies – and he is risking a lot, from diffamation to series threats on his – at least professional – existence. We need to step up, too, and defend our culture. And the curious thing is, that this time it is postmodernism and not autocratie which pushes the button to  END FREEDOM.

Where extreme Feminism can lead – the paranoia of oppression and seeing enemies in every “other”.

Watch this debate and note the missing co-operation for finding some solution. Looks almost like the famous political debates in America: reason is not valid against the continuous repetition of ideologic statements. This reminded me of some “discussions” I had with Jehova’s witnesses who came to my house, only to deliver pre-packaged standpoints and no availability to discuss the validity of the claims by looking into reality.