response to post about weak submissive woman

I imagine you carry with you the same vehemence you express in your post as on the day we did actually meet, about this "type" of woman. I imagine that every woman who falls into your category of weak and or submissive is the container of a huge array of reasons, logic, emotion, maybe chaotic forces, contradictions and so on. With all this going on inside her, she may well reason to herself that she hates this man, this symbol of her pain. And she may very well see him as an extension of herself, the part of her that hates, that destroys, that seeks to harm. I argue that every one of us has that shadow in us.

What distinguishes us from each other, and from her the "weak" woman as you call her, is our ability to manage the Shadow. There is discipline needed to conquer the urge to do harm, even slight harm, knocking over a drink in a club just to be mean, to great harm, raping or stabbing or threatening actual violence and acting on it, a bigger example is sending innocent men and women to wars that maintain an elitist repressive power structure. We are not her and we are not "weak" or "submissive" because for the grace of whatever mercy surrounding or within us we have been able to stop ourselves from being that which we are taught from infancy, pre- school to hate and to mock, weakness in ourselves, weakness in each other and weakness represented by that which we are taught is woman herself, the essence of being feminine.

So, all that said, I assert it is not truly the weak submissive woman you see in the movie or among your friends that you HATE, it is the part of you that fears being controlled, fears losing control, fears Becoming Her, for some part of her is you. Some part of every being we ever encounter, most especially those who evoke strong reactions, such as this sort of archetype does for you, is a part of the vast and multi dimensional self that makes up humanity, including the painfully enormous Shadow cast by our lesser selves.