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PeonForHer -> RE: The natural power that women have over men... (5/19/2010 7:52:18 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyCimarron
Yes. I believe that women can pretty much get men to do anything. Not just the over sexualized women either. But all of us. And a lot of men cater to us without even knowing that they are doing it. I know some will disagree but I see what the OP is talking about. And his idea of feminine power is not a new idea, in fact its very old. .
I don't doubt that that sort of power is there, Lady C, and I'm sure it's a big power, too. But it's fleeting. With every partner I've had, it's been there just for an instant, now and then. Instants that are etched in my memory. But neither men nor women should hope for it to be there all of the time, I think.
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In 400 BC a play called Lysistrata was first performed. It was about a group of women who stopped a war by refusing to be intimate with any men until the war was over.
You're right - the theme of that feminine power is ancient and enduring. The fact that it's contained in many myths, legends and stories right up to the present day, is testament to that. But those stories generally convey warnings, too. For a start, the power that women use is often referred to as 'glamour'. This word has only recently come to apply to Hollywood-style 'cool'. It was once taken to refer to a magical-occult spell. There was often the sense that the spell would give its user a superficial beauty, while the 'inside' of her was rotting, dying, or evil. (The Witch in Sleeping Beauty, for instance.) They lose their humanity, in short.
As for the men who became enchanted by that glamour - they lose their humanity, and become ugly, as well. In Greek myth, for instance, Circe enchants Odysseus's men and turns them into pigs. A classic, twentieth century version of that theme was the Professor's degeneration as a result of his enchantment by Marlene Dietrich's cabaret-star character in The Blue Angel.
Nonetheless, a dose of that glamour - for fleeting instants - is wonderful both for women and for men. Neither sex is going to be destroyed by it, so long as it does its stuff just occasionally, then blows itself away so that we can all be human again, cherishing the memory of it, though not trying to clutch onto it. But not only should it vanish, it always does vanish. Not even Pam Anderson can maintain the glamour day in, day out, forever.
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