4th Wave Feminism:
Culture is by nature exclusive.
feminine=nature (NOT NECESSARILY TIED TO GENDER, AND INCLUDING ENVIROMENT AND SPACE).
Object oriented ontology.
A recognition of both masculine and feminine energies as necessary to the completion of any individual, movement, or community.
Realization that one literally does not exist without the other. Naturally.
Seeing both in all, and respecting that. Consideration of balance to be utmost.
That's the bianary fascination, and it has nothing to do with gender or physicality in this sense,
being more akin to + and - charges.
This is not about the reproductive animal urge or whether you have an innie or an outie.
That's the wave, it's more dispersed now. An expansive view that reevaluates the perception of the negative feminine, accepts the shift in meaning, allowing for a flip. Opens the field.
Then, there's the application of the thing.
Let's not forget that things do not change overnight, and that millenia of entrenched methodology certainly can't be shifted in a century. Concessions must be made, continue to be made. If you give a shit about balance and the future, care so much about peace and democracy, than you must actively (in a "masculine/hot" sense) consider the rights of the feminine; the quiet, the unassuming, among various other interpretations of feminine. Including the terrible weak, the over-employed, the pre-occupied, the lacking synonyms. We are all delicate on the inside, and conscious empathy must be employed. Just admit that being one-sided is sticky and difficult and un-fufilling. It's great to be a robot, but just be quiet and pay attention to the curve. Sit back, stop thinking about yourself. Be polite no matter what, sweet manners, not honor-related ones. You have to go out of your way to even see it, to remember to think about it. It's an unfolding of contemplation again and again, the discombobulation and acceptance of the negative.
It's the knowledge that the feminine negative doesn't ask for what it needs,
only retreats into massive black drawfism.
The rejection of reactionary action.
A rambling recollection of "cold" or "feminine" characteristics as I have seen float across the countence of various peoples could help to explain the Nature/Culture war in a human context.
Firstly and perhaps contributing the most;
the (SELF) survival instinct is feminine and would never go to war, would always retreat, and it fights without regard to valor and without reason. Nothing is more frightening than fraternizing with the survival instinct. In war and competition, those great masculine (successful) pursuits, it could translate as cowardice or laziness, which are typical (cultural) despicable interpretations of humanity.
Day-dreams and hallucinations are feminine, as Bachelard told us early in
Poetics of Reverie, (pg. 1-2). It doesn't serve the purpose of organizational, necessary sleep and is therefore unacceptable to most people, who value their work, especially in times of trouble and introspection. Besides, these are out of our control, spinning and only tremulously linked to consciousness.
Acceptance is feminine, as are all its concessions.
Beauty in all its forms is feminine, and the terrible beauty of the sublime and inescapable falls here, beauty unattached to reason. This can become disembodied locus of all crude and earthy-pure desires, dangerous because of it's separation. This also represents that which is irrational. Additionally, We can never possess that which is already only a part of us.
To shirk is feminine, and the feminine is weak, always finding the lowest point as water does (Tao te Ching). And following we find that t
o backstab due to lack of power is also feminine. Lacking power creates echoing rejections.
But, forgiveness is feminine, as is jealousy.
These are examples of easily recalled construction of feminine.
So for now, to preserve is feminine, and this is part of what what we must embrace; the stewardship of the natural as an essential part of culture: the feminine, the cold, the unwitting animal, what keeps us breathing. Without our roots we are nothing. These are only a tiny drop in the lexicon of what bianary thought has prescribed to the feminine/negative, do consider. She has had so little support beyond glinting fascination from the cultural.
in progress
