I completely agree with you, and your reflection connects beautifully with Carl Jung’s theory of the archetypes of the Anima and the Animus.
Jung explained that within every man exists an unconscious feminine component (the Anima), and within every woman, an unconscious masculine component (the Animus). These aspects aren’t meant to erase the differences between the sexes, but to integrate them in a balanced way, allowing each person to achieve a more complete and conscious personality.
When men disconnect from their essential masculinity or women from their deep femininity, a confusion of roles arises one that affects relationships, trust, and even attraction itself. And as you said, when both act against their natural ideals, the order that sustains harmony, complementarity, and ultimately the flourishing of human connection is lost.
That’s why “deprogramming,” as you mentioned, doesn’t mean denying our nature, but freeing ourselves from the ideologies that distort who we are. It’s about looking again toward the ideal not from dogma, but from the inner truth within each of us.
In that sense, when a man embodies his strength, direction, and purpose, and a woman embodies her intuition, sensitivity, and emotional wisdom, they complete one another, reflecting that natural balance between the Anima and Animus.
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Complete agreement 🤝
I’m of the opinion that the essential confusion in our present time arises from men acting weak, then women observing these weak men, and instead of asking them to stop being weak, they ask them to stop being men. And the men oblige and we spiral downward.
I think we fix it by telling men to stop being weak, and stop letting women think they don’t want men to be men.
I don’t think we need to be telling women to be more feminine, I think women know intuitively how to be their true feminine selves, but can only do this in the safe space provided by men being men. So the burden here is on men to shape up.