👩‍❤️‍👨HEALING THE GENDER DIVIDE👩‍❤️‍👨
I love men. I love women. Even more than men and women – I love children. I love boys (I’m raising one) who will become men. I love girls (I’m raising one) who will become women.

We (adult men and adult women and adult society) have a collective responsibility to future generations to heal the war between the sexes AND among the sexes. All adult humans, raising/teaching/managing/treating vulnerable others (children, students, direct reports, patients), have a responsibility to raise our consciousness and heal the inherited internalized patriarchal norms that DO A DISSERVICE TO ALL.

🙋‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️FELLOW WOMEN IN PARTICULAR: We play a role in perpetuating the gender divide:

➡️RELATIONAL AGGRESSION(gossiping, rumor spreading, talking behind backs)

➡️DISCOMFORT with DIRECT EXPRESSION

➡️OVER-INDEXING on caretaking values at the EXPENSE OF OUR HEALTH

➡️SILENCING our INNER VOICES to keep the peace

➡️TRYING TOO HARD TO CONTROL WHAT WE CAN’T (others’ feelings, thoughts, and actions)

➡️Harmful behaviors stemming from unacknowledged JEALOUSY/ENVY across from other women

➡️Consciously and subconsciously adopting TOXIC MASCULINITY norms of power, dominance, control, and competing to “get to the top” of the food chain at the expense of treating others with respect and dignity.

🙋🏼‍♀️EVERYONE🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍➡️➡️➡️

🥺There are many systemic and inherited reasons for our current state of affairs. It can feel overwhelming to try to change the system.

☮️🕊️☮️THERE IS A DIFFERENT, HEALTHIER MODEL that we ALL have inherited in our DNA. At the end of the day, WE ARE SOCIAL ANIMALS who have the capacity for collaboration, teamwork, and deep empathy. I’ll write more on this later.

➡️IF HEALING THE GENDER DIVIDE IS IMPORTANT TO YOU, start with the source that you have the most direct influence over: YOU.

➡️COMMIT to one action today to HEAL THE GENDER DIVIDE. One suggestion – if anything I wrote about in this post is foreign to you and/or makes you bristle/uncomfortable, do your best to “CULTIVATE A BEGINNER’S MIND” and SELF-EDUCATE.

➡️GO TO THE LIBRARY SECTION OF MY COMPANY WEBSITE,
www.psychinsideout.com/education/library/ and check out the reading list in the men & boys and women & girls sections.

➡️SUBSCRIBE to my Substack
insideoutpsychology.substack.com/

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www.psychinsideout.com/newsletter/

➡️FOLLOW ME/JOIN MY NETWORK on LinkedIN
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I will be writing more on these issues.