SHACK 4147 Yin and Yang

Courtesy Love to Know

This is a massive subject and there are so many variations, discussions, meanings and debates. So I throw in my sixteen pence as they say. It seems we live in a dual world and the symbol depicted above shows that in Yin there is a bit of Yang and vice versa, that is supposed to be balanced energies, at the same time these are not static and change  with circumstances, natural rhythms and cycles and in our bodies we may seek homeostasis.

In various philosophies, religions, cults and nefarious opinions these complimentary energies have turned into polarities and have become distorted and egregious. When I did a course such issues I came across the Yoni (female genitalia) and lingam(male genitalia) and the symbols and deep meaning in them, I am not even going to attempt any explanations merely such to say they are deeply meaningful and to some spiritual and to point out the some of the explanations, values and religious spiritual meanings and not just sex.   

For me and seeing the struggle women had to get the vote in the UK and won through the Suffragettes and in many countries now women are denied education, and are separated at their menstrual times and are classed as unclean. I had this discussion with a man who had come to the UK and lived in such a society and I said to him 'in your intimacy you entered your wife and that was OK and then she gave birth or not sometime after and yet the very act of menstruation is unclean how can this be if a child is or can be the outcome? 'His answer was ' that was the tradition and this is how it is and there no need to explain it or justify to you or anyone' I was not prepared to go further and left it at that.  Then the act of female circumcision, I know several of my 'female patients' in my clinical days had been circumcised and had come for help dealing with this trauma as it was forced on them, the UK has a law against this and there have been clashes with the law and those religious traditions of this nature. 

Now to another aspect; females who get stalked, abused in relationships, rapes, celebrity women who receive sheer vulgar media abuse and the list goes on. I really like women's football, rugby, cricket, tennis and other sports and I get a lot of stick from my mates as they say I am doing it to get a sexual kick out of it. However I like to watch men do the same sports does this make homosexual, bio sexual or just a sexual addict wanting to arouse my libido and then masturbate over or after the event? I  found out later that some of my former mates 'got off' on porn and cross dressing and visiting brothels or inviting prostitutes to their homes. This is acceptable to me and who am I to judge them. Each to their own although it is not my 'thing'

Having been a footballer years back and apprentice for a short while until injury cut short my career I felt the joy of running and it makes my heart full of joy when I see kids, especially young girls and women RUNNING FREELY not just at the Olympics or specific Athletic meetings. To me it the locked up female energy breaking free to be an equal not of course in strength because of how we are biologically born but of the RIGHT  and CHOICE to follow our passion, to feel fulfilled and express ourselves so we do not bottle up our feelings and let them fester and explode in unhealthy and damaging ways.

I hear in the block of flats where I live some of the men say 'women referees, women commentators, women's football no way, women's cricket rubbish and as for rugby they all must be lesbians' They will not listen or debate and I am banned and as I do not smoke or drink beer in the meetings in our residents lounge is out of bounds, I feel some men feel threatened by the 'weak stay at home, house wife, the meek little women is only good for children and cooking and some of the men demand to know where  their wife is and keep control, some go to the pub nearly everyday and the 'good little lady' goes shopping and tea out with her friends and that's it. As we look around the world today we see child and women trafficking and then there is the rebellion by women to be recognised and cherished. When I worked in forensics with the police the abuse against women police officers from their male counterparts was pathetic and the bosses looked away. There are many male police officers in the UK and I know elsewhere and the military where this is rife.

SHACK     aka    GEOFF