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Hatred for women and repudiation of femininity exist even among women. Many of them do not realize that, even if unconsciously, they devalue, underestimate, reject someone’s opinion, just because the person giving the opinion is a woman.
Commonly, this same idea, with the same ideological bias, with the same political, scientific, cultural, religious traits, if presented by a man, would be received in a much easier way. Why this?
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The feminine perspective clearly involves welcoming, integration, conciliation, negotiation, openness to listen and to feel the other party, to cooperate more than to compete. It is through this way of being, acting and feeling the world that we will save ourselves.
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Organizations that have hierarchies based on earned leadership, not on authority established from the top-down, show a feminine trait and point the way to the leadership of the future — a more effective one, already in the present.
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“Whoever wants to be first in the Kingdom of God, be the one who serves all.” The lessons of Jesus reveal a deep understanding of human beings, of how we function as individuals and communities. Those who have power, have the power to give of themselves to others, to render a service to society, to fulfill a delegation of responsibility with focus on the common good.
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Women with a lot of power are usually viewed with suspicion. We don’t see this toward men…
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar and Spiritual Friends
“Conference by the spiritual leader Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar at the UN CSW65 — Empowerment of women and girls, from cultural matrices”
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