[UA] Daddy?

[graver]

Ah, now you see the hard row the Stay At Home Dad must fight to change the Mother!  There's no gender specifications, but, damn it, we're all programed to think there is 9or at least I seem to be) ;) 

It seems I was just blindly assuming seeing as how both the Masterless man and Flying Woman are gender specific, then, hell, the mother HAD to be.  I would have thought that that archetype had a bigger case for it then the two that are.  It does make me wonder though...

I, too, have always seen the FW as just the flip side to the Masterless coin, a side that was stifled and mostly unknown until that one flight.  Except, due to perceptions of the time and the rout Emilia went, a new archetype ascended as opposed to her soaring her way onto the path of the Masterless.

The fundamental differences (beyond channels, taboos, and that whole gender thing) seem somewhat trivial but, I guess do to peoples perceptions at the time the archetypes ascended, they ended up being just different enough.  One is about breaking free of bondage, the other is about never being bound... so close.

heh, I guess this means that in the next incarnation of the universe, there will still be very distinct gender roles inground into us... probably the machinations of the Mystic Hermaphrodite ;)

This does make me wonder about something, though.  If global perceptions were to change enough to where two archetypes were essentially filling the same role, what would happen?  Would they consume each other becoming the new thing?  Fight it out, winner take all?  And if any of the above, does that mean there would suddenly be a vacuum in the clergy, one that the universe would try to fill asap to keep Armageddon on track, or would universal reincarnation be delayed a tad?

Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote: On 2/22/07, James Hardie  wrote:
>
> As far as I recall, there is nothing preventing men from channelling the
> mother- only the masterless man and the flying Woman are gender exclusive
> (and personally I wouldn't object to masterless women).

Can't say I'd object to a Masterless Woman either.  Heck, there seems
to be some inpsiration for the archtype these days:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Rifle-More-Than-You/dp/0393329224/sr=8-1/qid=1172202907/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9166935-8347615?ie=UTF8&s=books

Also, I just reread the description of the Flying Woman.  Hard to see
anything distinctly gender specific in self-determination and
self-reliance.

Thinking about it though, it's almost as if they're two versions of
the same idea ( self-reliance / self-determination ), although I'm
probably missing a nuance or two.

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It takes a village to raise a child,
but just a van and a few puppies to catch one.
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