Re: New 0ptout?

[Alan G. Monaghan]

to feel as his own; he doesn't
look so far as to see the source of her power, which lies in her
submitting so easily. He is duped. For her's is not a masculine power,
but a power that exists only within her sphere of submission.

Man is not happy with submission, so is under constant threat from a
world which would love to crush his hopes. He rarely feels the
easy-going and open confidence of woman, which is so very much like that
of a child. He is a stranger to her security, which bows down before all
things. Man has to give the appearance of being secure; woman actually
is secure. For this reason, in his weaker moments, he sees her as a
super-male, or a god, who is what he desires most deeply. He projects
woman in his own image, making himself blind to her true form.

" . . . there is a moment in her life when she deceptively appears to be
infinitude itself - and that is when man is captured. And as a wife she
is quite simply - finitude."

Kierkegaard

Man doesn't see his mistake till it is too late. Now he sees her
puttering