Speaker: Vince Klassen
I have a problem in my life… I don’t like to share my feeling. I don’t. And I know that this makes me a stereotypical male. And it makes me out of step with a society that says i need to like to share my feelings. But the reality is, I don’t enjoy it at all (And I say this with a little guilt like admitting this somehow makes me a little bit of a bad person). But i don’t think I’m alone.
Where do you guilt about fitting the 1950’s gender stereotype??
I wonder if our guilt comes from the North American fight for gender equality (which I think is absolutely mandatory and needs to be fought for even more), which somehow became equated with gender sameness. Can we be equal, but not the same?
This is what we are going to talk about this Sunday. Because I think this impacts us all more than we think. But also, because in our spiritual work, I think being equal is mandatory, but so is being the exact unique people we are, and not feeling guilty for what that looks like.