anima-animus manifesto

Anima—animus: as defined by Carl Jung, are the inner female within the male and the inner male within the female, respectively. In this fusion of male and female, female and male, we find the balance and the unity so desperately lacking in our current system of gender politics, i.e., feminism, i.e., “female-ism.”
Welcome to anima-animus.com, the website for those who are serious about a balanced perspective on gender and gender issues. This site operates from the conviction that the politicized female perspective (feminism) is valid and already widely known and profoundly acknowledged throughout Western culture. Therefore, to achieve balance in the belief system, we must add the politicized male perspective (masculism) into the large-scale gender issues equation.
The over-arching principle that pervades and unifies every element of my philosophy on gender can be expressed in a single word: Balance. In defiance of our one-sided belief system, the site’s premise is this: in the benefits enjoyed, the liabilities suffered, the power, the victimization, the freedoms and the constraints, it all balances out between men and women – and it always has. The site’s purpose is to do what it can to promote a general understanding and perception of this balance throughout the culture at large.
Imagine, if you will, a gigantic scale with love on one end of the balance beam and respect on the other. This love / respect dynamic upon which balance between the sexes pivots can be described in two brief statements:
Throughout history both sexes have respected men
more than they have respected women.
Throughout history both sexes have loved women
more than they have loved men.
The four key statements:
First – at birth, members of both sexes are assigned roles, socialization and conditioning that facilitate and ensure a world wherein men are more respected/less loved and women are more loved/less respected.
Second – historically, men have been no more empowered to escape their biology, role, socialization, conditioning and concurrent fate than women have.
Third – the two sexes, equally powerful, each having equal influence over the world and over each other, engage in equal complicity and partnership in making the human world what it is.
Fourth – throughout history the enormous consequences and vast repercussions suffered by women for being less respected have been matched in full by the enormous consequences and vast repercussions suffered by men for being less loved.
These are the four key statements because together these truths lead to the single most important truth in sexual politics: It All Balances Out!
I hope you will read on to learn more about Balance: how it’s true, why it’s true and what society has to gain from adopting this truth.