But now I see it's really the opposite -- the man's world isn't good enough for us. But they have the power. They say how things are going to be, and we have to fit into that.
Even the way people have to work -- rush to a job in the morning, work all day, come home at night exhausted and brain-dead, all just to get enough money to live on. I'm sure that must've been invented by a man -- the owner of the factory where the rest of us have to work. Working all day long is no way to live, especially if you have a family, children who need to be taken care of. But a woman either has to do that or give up her power to a man who does it. The whole thing fits together -- wars, factories, families all run by men.
And look where it's got us. We're killing each other, we're killing Mother Earth, everybody's miserable, nobody's happy, but men are afraid to change. They're terrified of losing their control. Power is everything to them -- if it's gone, they're nothing, little boys again.
The whole thing has made me kind of sick of men (please don't take that personally -- one of the reasons I like your novels so much is that they show you're trying to change all this too). I really needed to get away from the male world. So I'm trying something different.
And being with a woman is definitely different, we're more tuned in to one another. I've discovered that men aren't necessary to be happy in this world. Women are quite special, and I'm glad to be Nynke's lover.
I was raised to believe this was unnatural, but now that seems ridiculous. The whole idea that some things people do are natural and other things unnatural doesn't really make sense -- people are part of nature, and other animals sometimes do it that way. To say it's unnatural is just a way of saying, "I don't like it," but hiding behind some big authority like God or Mother Nature.
Going through this change made me see that other things we believe are also probably nonsense. Most people believe that war is natural -- we've always had wars, humans are just warriors, that's the way it has to be. They say the important thing is that we win. We need a strong military or another country will take us over. People are born violent, and we have to defend ourselves against that.
But this may be just the way things are now. In the future things might not have to be this way. It could be that this argument that human nature is violent is being put out by people who want to keep us from changing.
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