Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:38:45 -0400
From: marsha faizi <mfaizi-AT-rbnet.com>
Subject: Re: silence




J. Foster wrote:

> Faizi writes:
>
> >Masculine hardness cannot be moved<
>
> There is no ancient Greek word for you. One would call you warrior.

I am a warrior.  I do not believe in relinquishing a battle.  Battle is what
hardens one and emboldens and molds the character.

> War is
> the hard, inflexible,  impenetrable, brazen, brash reality of facts
> themselves, not men. Men are not facts they are constructions of womens
> minds, warrior ants.

I think that there is some truth to this.  Men are used by women as drones.

> They have the equivalent of biting, piercing, sucking
> mouthparts, but tend to social by nature.  But really! "Masculine hardness
> cannot be moved". I like that. So masculinity has some other attributes
> besides what it is. Ha! well I would like a woman to prove that!

I wrote that masculine hardness cannot be moved.  I did not say that creatures
who are less than masculine, despite biological maleness, cannot be moved.  A
man who is not masculine in his thought can easily be shoved around by women.
They are shoved around and bullied by women; not just women who are biologically
female but women of both genders.

> The first
> thing men learn about the opposite [female principle] is that they make the
> decisions. Every decision a man can make is vetoed by her.

How could a human being worthy of being called a man allow a woman to veto his
decisions?  I would not allow that.  I don't allow that.  I live alone and I
make my own decisions and I live with the benefits and the consequences of my
decisions.  No one can veto anything that I decide.  My decisions are my right
to life.  I do not compromise.

> Why are men so
> lean? They are built that way so they can take action quickly at woman's
> bequest, at her call.

Not all beings who are born with the gender of man are so lean.  Many are round
apples.  During my time in the army, I knew that I was capable of battle or of
defending those near me.  I could shoot better than most and I could throw a
good grenade and I could carry a lot on my back.  I could drag an injured or
exhausted man for some distance.  I was extremely protective of those near me.

> Women want the daring, the hardest son of harder. Why
> are women less lean? Full moon, round apples....They do not have to take
> action as quickly and are more capable of weathering the storm outside when
> rations are slim. Men are expendible,

I never considered myself expendable.  My mission was survival at all costs.  To
hell with all lost causes.  I was not there for political reasons.  I was there
for my survival and the survival of those who were near me.

> they go on warring and raiding parties
> to defend the homelands of the savanna tribal group, spearing anything in
> site; it is an honour to die heroically  in battle. Only one man is required
> to father children of fifty women. When a man tires of the hunt and the
> raiding party, then he marries and settles down, and tell stories during the
> long winter.

Then, he becomes a woman.  That is a pity.

> Women use opinion and silence to fight with. That is their hardness. And men
> run to war for their sake.

Why would a man go to war for the sake of a woman?  A woman who is not allowed
to act and to think and to behave as a woman is as fully capable of war as any
man.  Why would a man defend a woman when she is perfectly capable of defending
herself?

I do not need a man to defend me.  I can protect myself and others around me.

> Why masculine hardness can be moved I say. It can be moved by the spear.
> Rended like paper. His hardness he can bleed till the heart stops, like a
> jack hammer in concrete his heart can be broken and dismantled and drained.

Death is honor to one who has fought well.  To die by the sword does not mean
that one becomes less of a man.  A man can die and his masculinity cannot be
moved.

> Why masculine hardness is nothing against a javelin tip assualts of verbal
> abuse and insults, or an arrow piercing the breast of his purity of which is
> to will one thing the purity of the beautiful, to sacrifice all he has for
> the beautiful woman of his sight.

Why would a man do this when woman is capable of defending herself?  Why allow
her to perpetuate the myth of the helpless woman when she is not helpless?  How
can women ever release themselves from the shackles of their gender if man is so
willing to defend them solely upon the basis of their gender; solely upon the
graciousness of their beauty?

> The horn of the antelope can pierce that
> hardness too, throwing the el toreador for a fatal summersault. The bronc
> rider thrown off the saddle less horse has to meet an even harder foe than
> man: the dirt, and mud and so on, and scorn.  There is nothing harder and
> sharper than tools  of rejection. For killing by hand alone is a form of
> participation in beauty. To be given the gift of a swift dispatch rather
> than to face the scorn of a failed coup d'etat. Obsidian knives are a
> thousand times more sharp than the best Swedish steel, they leave no tears
> nor any incision. Man has a set of incisors but uses them no longer, having
> invented sharpness, perfected it actually to pierce hardness.   No, a man
> when he loses his hardness, and is no longer capable of sharpness and an of
> an unmoving nature settles down and marries and has children to make him
> happy the rest of his days; usually by the longest winter of the father's
> story telling, when his father no longer even hunts except in summer with
> all the tribe. When the younger man's father has most of his stories fresh
> in his mind....
>
> Who moves masculine hardness? Other men and natural predators like the
> Grizzly bear [Ursus horridus] and certain plants like Opolopanax horridus,
> the devils club.
>

Nothing can move masculine hardness.  One may die from the piercing of some
instrument but that does not make him less of a man.

When a man marries and has children, he becomes a woman.  Femininity is soft and
pliable and can be moved; can be shaken; can be ripped; can be laid to waste.

A man is a man always unless he succumbs to a woman.

Masculinity, in its pure state, is timeless.

Faizi


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