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There is much concern today about the future of man, which means, of course, both women and men-generic man. For a woman to take exception to this use of the term "man" is often seen as defensive hair-splitting by an emotional female.

The following experience is an invitation to awareness, in which you are asked to feel into and stay with your feelings through each step. Do not intellectualize, for the experience will lose its impact.

Think of reversing the generic term "man." Think of the future of woman, which includes, of course, both women and men. Sense its meaning for you as a man...as a woman.

Think of it as always being that way, every day of your life. Feel the ever-presence of and feel the woman, nonpresence of man. Absorb what it tells you about the importance of being woman...of being man.

Recall that everything you have ever read used only female pronouns: she, her, meaning both girls and boys, women and men. Recall that most of the voices on radio and most of the

faces on TV are women, when important events are covered, on commercials, on talk shows.

Recall that you have no male Senators in Washington to represent you.

Feel the fact that women are the natural leaders, the powercenters, the prime movers. Man, whose natural role is husband and father, fulfills himself through nurturing children and making the home a refuge for

women.

This is only natural to balance the biological role of woman, who devotes her whole body to the race during pregnancy, the most revered power known to woman...or to man, or course.

Consider the obvious biological explanation for woman as the ideal: her genital construction. By design, the female genitals are compact and internal, protected by her body. Male genitals are so exposed and vulnerable that he must be protected from outside attack to assure the perpetuation of the race. he obviously needs sheltering.

Thus, by nature males are more passive than females and have a desire in sexual relations to be symbolically engulfed by the protective body of the female.

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Males psychologically yearn for the protection, fully realizing their masculinity only at this time, and feeling exposed and vulnerable at other times. A man experiences himself as a "whole man" when thus engulfed.

If the man denies these feelings, he is unconsciously rejecting his masculinity. Therapy is thus indicated to facilitate openness leading to the man's growth and self-actualization.

To help him feel into his defensive emotionality, he is in-. vited to get in touch with the child within him. He remembers his sitter jeering at his primitive genitals that "flop around foolishly," while she can run, jump, climb and ride horseback

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Obviously, since she is free to move, she is encouraged to develop her body and mind in preparation for her active. responsibility of adult womanhood. The male vulnerability needs female protection, so he is taught the less active, caring virtues of homemaking.

Because of his vagina-envy, he learns to bind up his genitals and feel unclean and ashamed because of his nocturnal emissions. He is encouraged to dream of getting married, and waits for the time of his fulfillment, when his woman gives him a girl-child to care for..

He knows that if it is a boychild, he has somehow

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failed. But they can always try again.

In therapy those early experiences are reawakened. He attends an encounter group entitled "On Being a Man," which is led by a woman. In a group of 19 men and four women, he begins to work through some of his deepest feelings.

What feelings do you think he will express?

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