April 28, 2006 | Dudespeak I love women. Always have as long as I can remember, since before grade school. I enjoy their company, much more than I do being around men. For me, it's not so much being afraid of them as it is being ill-prepared to deal with them. VERY ill-prepared. == Here's the point; there was very little or no difference between the women and men in the feelings we were going through. Our hurts and fears and needs were virtually the same. I cannot say if our coping strategies were the same because that’s what we were there to learn. I can say that in this group those strategies worked equally well. Or when men identify their feelings as efficiently as women then the differences are far less. == Women were presumed superior and my brother and I were taught to treat them as if they were. My mother never had a kind word to say about my father except that he was honest about money. He is, but he has a lot of other human attributes that I was not allowed to acknowledge. It took me a long time to understand the damage to a boy when the mother shows no respect for his father. == I can't say exactly how much religion in general has contributed to humanity's sexual and relationship dysfunction, but it's been many moons going on. This bad direction piled on top of many generational tweaks and freaks compounds the problems every minute. Bad energy abounds, and we aren't taught that this needs some healthy outlet and/or solution, although the anti-depressant industry seems pleased. == My suggestion for anyone who is having chronic problems with the opposite sex is that you stop relating to people as members of a group and start seeing them as individuals. == http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/world_returns4.html