The ancient woman
I have been staying in a hotel for the past 3 weeks as I can’t drive, bath or walk. Luckily I can eat and go to the loo alone. Anyway as my room service arrived the oddest realisation hit me: waiters are almost always men and cleaning ladies almost always.. well ladies. When the waiter arrives he must knock at your door to enter the room but the cleaning lady has a master key and after one knock let’s herself in. What does this mean?
It means that intrinsically we trust women more than men.
Which is a strange set of circumstances considering that 99% of our cultures treat women as if they cannot be trusted. Women are not trusted to run businesses, warrant an equal salary and many other items including driving a car and being alone with a man. Of course in different cultures these degrees differ but as a whole this is the sad truth.
And yet women birth men, they raise them, teach them, nurture them. They keep families together and therefore are an integral part of a healthy society. By default women have to be trusted.
The question should then be asked who it is that cannot be trusted – those that cannot trust or those that aren’t trusted? What has happened to our most basic animalistic balance of masculine and feminine that exists throughout the natural world? How did this drastic imbalance come to be and how is it to be reversed?
Because it is a matter of reversal rather than evolution. There was a time when man and woman held equal respect within the family and within the community. Where responsibilities where clearly understood and the word ‘trust’ had not yet been invented as there was no inkling that it could be any other way. The vast problems that our world faces today must find its solution within the core:
Balance. Respect. Trust. Empathy. Harmony
