Child<Woman<Man<God

Sometimes I find it helpful, when dealing with women's irrationality, pestering, disobedience, and outright malice to think of the hierarchy in the title of this post.

For the definition of God, if you don't believe in any particular God, then use the definition of "existence itself" which is something you obviously can't deny--that existence exists, and that it precedes and is the necessary condition for all other things. It is the essence of being, and makes a good philosophical placeholder for anyone who doesn't believe in any other understanding of God.

How much do we rely on God? Or, again for atheists, how much do we rely on existence existing? Completely and 100%. We have nothing, we are nothing without God/existence.

This is reflected in the way a child thinks about its parents. And especially its mother in its earliest years. If they are out of the room, it is an existential crisis. We can understand that.

And yet, we often have difficulty with the notion that woman's being is fundamentally as dependent on man, as a child's is on its mother, and a man's is on God/existence. (Naturally, woman and children need God/existence, too… it's a flow-chart.)

But I find this analogy can help explain the way women shit-test and say things irrational and horrible to men.

Have you ever cursed God? Cursed the day you were born? Cursed the evil in the world, for which you place the blame on God, when the real culprit was Man? Blamed God for all your shortcomings, like a whiny feminist blaming men for all of hers?

Said, or thought to God, if you do x, I'll believe in you. If you don't, I won't. You are more powerful, but it's only by the standards of MY tests that you should prove yourself.

Have you ever thought that existence is inherently evil or absurd? And railed against the absurd universe, spouted off to your friends with existential angst… yet another day, you beamed in some euphoria, understanding that all existence is pure and good and you are part of it?

Are you not like a woman who hates men, and loves men. Says she doesn't need them, and cries for days when they ignore her?

And isn't she coming to you like a child crying for Mommy?

(And did not God perhaps, for love of woman and man, come into existence as a child, through woman, to become a man, sacrificing all to be glorified as God, making a full cycle?!)

Anyway, this is just a thought that helps me understand women better. I wanted it to be accessible to believers and non-believers alike, because I think it's true and makes sense in the order of existence.

How many children want to be taken for big boys and big girls? To be treated as adults? Yet it is ridiculous when they try. They can never do so until they grow into that.

And how many men want to be seen as Gods? Yet their efforts are ridiculous! A big apartment and a swimming pool. An expensive car. Leading a company. Can that compare to the creation of the universe?! We know these men are fools.

And yet how many women want to be taken for men? Strong, rational, reading a Sheryl Sandberg book, aspiring to be a CEO, because that's what a man does. They have no idea what a man does and they are just as ridiculous for trying as a child putting Mommy's sports bra on their head so they can dress up as Mommy.

And when a woman wails and cries against YOU… not against children, nor against God, but YOU… it is because she feels as you do when you rail against the cruel indifference of the universe, or the unanswered prayer.

While you do whatever it takes to conquer the world, no holds barred, take no prisoners because the competition is tough… that is just how she will take it to YOU, to find her meaning by conquering you.

But to be conquered by her is like her being conquered by a child. It would show she was weak and backwards.

Thinking of this ordering, putting man and woman in the context with children and God(/bare existence) helps me see myself and my flaws in what women do, without seeing our flaws as equal. They are just a reflection. And her struggles with me are like my struggles with the highest order of the universe.