The great scholar Confucius once said that “a thousand wombs are not worth one testicle.”
However, there is no doubt that women are worth more than men and that Confucius might have been suffering from a bad case of womb envy. Every anthropologist worth his or her salt will say that it has been well-documented that aboriginal men are so consumed by jealousy of women’s ability to create life that an aboriginal man will even go through the motions of delivery with his fellow tribesmen in a separate hut as his pregnant wife delivers.
Specifically, men are jealous of the power that women have to create life; there is an unconscious power struggle between men and women. Taking full advantage of his position of peerless scholar, Freud, the one who coined the term “penis envy” and made that infamous, erroneous remark that “biology is destiny,” made this unconscious concession of jealousy that was obviously meant to cause women to relegate themselves to a powerless position.
It is the fault of these “scholars” that generations of women have denigrated themselves, their bodies, their abilities and their potential. It did not help that Greek scholar Aristotle said that the father is the real “author” of a child and not the mother. Jung might have said that women have ingrained this disparaging historical attitude into their collective unconscious, and that explains women’s collective poor attitude towards themselves and their potential.
It is not just women who continue to denigrate women; it is also men. Men would never denigrate themselves the way women denigrate themselves; this is one way in which women show their superiority. Men often show their unqualified high opinion of themselves by the way they walk; the observer can see many a male’s unqualified confidence in his typically casual, cocky strut. Women never affect this type of strut; too many women are probably at least unconsciously aware of their allegedly “biologically inferior” status.
Women show their superiority by their lack of arrogance; men show their inferiority by their physical cockiness. Men often jeer at women who do not match up with their fantasy ideal of how a “woman” should appear, but women very rarely go out of their way to make it plain to a man that he does not match with their ideals of what a man should look like. A lot of women would not consider their opinions so important.
I know I see a lot of guys who do not fit my ideal of what a guy should look like, but I do not bother with expressing my opinion of them. However, the hypocrisy of some men never fails to amaze me; when I was working as an intern at a radio station, a jockey with the biggest beer gut in the world made a comment that a female applicant was “too fat” in his opinion, and she was not applying for a modeling job.
In fact, men are way too focused on women’s bodies. The wit H.L. Mencken, the “sage of Baltimore” wrote in his “The Natural Superiority of Women,” that women often cannot stop thinking how wonderful men are, and men cannot stop thinking how wonderful women’s bodies are. It has been said before that men think of women only in terms of their bodies and little else. But could it be that they are secretly or unconsciously intimidated by the power of femininity? Author Tom Wolfe must have been secretly intimidated by the power of women when he wrote that “men use power to gain sex, and women use sex to gain power.”
However, some powerful women may be even more harmful to women in general; it has been documented that the few powerful executive women at the top of the corporate ladder are pleased to be among the very few women among a vaster majority of men, and these top-notch women resist women who would dare usurp their place among the high-salaried few with their access to high-salaried executive men.