Peter’s Electorate
What’s on in Ohariu
Mana tane without violence
October 24 10:42 AM
AUTHOR: Marty Gibson
This Rugby World Cup has been a banquet of mana tane — the good aspects of manliness.
When men express their masculinity in a good way they are calm, strong, determined, competent, self-sacrificing, protective, ambitious, brave and humble, with vision for how events might play out.
Warrior energy.
This weekend the All Blacks are ambassadors for the mana tane of all New Zealand men.
It will give many of those who played rugby a chance to dust off their memories of hard games and to remember their performance as a bit better than it was, and wonder whether they could have been an All Black if they had trained harder and drunk less beer.
Alongside the anticipation of victory on Sunday there is the tension of wondering whether our national psyche can survive another choke without shattering and releasing the bad expressions of male energy: violence, aggression, domineering and self-centredness.
Gang energy.
It’s almost as if rugby is a zoo we visit to celebrate male energy that is either too dangerous in the wild, or endangered due to habitat loss.
Healthy male energy is best developed in harmony with mana wahine — healthy female energy.
Men tend to want power and women tend to want love, and this sets the scene for a most agreeable trade, played out in different ways between different folks.
A man feels good about himself when he does good things. A woman does good things when she feels good about herself.
When a woman feels great she is compassionate, graceful, empathetic, nurturing, modest, creative, flexible, gentle . . . feminine.
With healthy mana tane or mana wahine, men and women can also embrace good characteristics of the opposite sex. For mana tane that is reflected in the word “gentleman”.
There has been a push to portray the differences between men and women as social convention rather than hard-wired biology.
According to this world view, women should compete with men for power, and not need their love.
Girls now do better than boys at school, and 60 percent of university graduates in New Zealand are female.
Men die younger than women, and end up in jail in much higher numbers, often for the negative masculine behaviour described above.
Young women are now more violent and sometimes less healthy from trying to out-compete, out-shag and out-drink men instead of raising families with them.
This culture has become so embedded that I hesitate to publicly question it because those who do are usually labelled misogynistic, chauvinistic or simply “dinosaurs”.
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs advocates for it and women’s studies departments at most universities supply the indoctrinated staff.
It promotes the message that women should embrace assertiveness, compete with men and be protected from them.
The philosophy is called feminism but it would be more accurately called “femasculinism”, because really it is a rejection of femininity.
UnitedFuture believes a healthy society should have mana tane and mana wahine working in harmony rather than in conflict — allowing men and women to become “more than the sum of their parts”.
We believe the $5 million a year Ministry of Women’s Affairs should become the “Ministry of Gender Affairs” and address the unique needs of both women and men, rather than trying to socially engineer away biology.
A healthy man who protects, provides for and is loved by his family is unlikely to end up before the courts for bullying them.
The good feeling he gets from that mana tane is likely to keep him around to raise healthy kids with a happy woman.
Make sure you recognise and support good masculinity when you see it in the wild, and go the mighty All Blacks.
When men express their masculinity in a good way they are calm, strong, determined, competent, self-sacrificing, protective, ambitious, brave and humble, with vision for how events might play out.
Warrior energy.
This weekend the All Blacks are ambassadors for the mana tane of all New Zealand men.
It will give many of those who played rugby a chance to dust off their memories of hard games and to remember their performance as a bit better than it was, and wonder whether they could have been an All Black if they had trained harder and drunk less beer.
Alongside the anticipation of victory on Sunday there is the tension of wondering whether our national psyche can survive another choke without shattering and releasing the bad expressions of male energy: violence, aggression, domineering and self-centredness.
Gang energy.
It’s almost as if rugby is a zoo we visit to celebrate male energy that is either too dangerous in the wild, or endangered due to habitat loss.
Healthy male energy is best developed in harmony with mana wahine — healthy female energy.
Men tend to want power and women tend to want love, and this sets the scene for a most agreeable trade, played out in different ways between different folks.
A man feels good about himself when he does good things. A woman does good things when she feels good about herself.
When a woman feels great she is compassionate, graceful, empathetic, nurturing, modest, creative, flexible, gentle . . . feminine.
With healthy mana tane or mana wahine, men and women can also embrace good characteristics of the opposite sex. For mana tane that is reflected in the word “gentleman”.
There has been a push to portray the differences between men and women as social convention rather than hard-wired biology.
According to this world view, women should compete with men for power, and not need their love.
Girls now do better than boys at school, and 60 percent of university graduates in New Zealand are female.
Men die younger than women, and end up in jail in much higher numbers, often for the negative masculine behaviour described above.
Young women are now more violent and sometimes less healthy from trying to out-compete, out-shag and out-drink men instead of raising families with them.
This culture has become so embedded that I hesitate to publicly question it because those who do are usually labelled misogynistic, chauvinistic or simply “dinosaurs”.
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs advocates for it and women’s studies departments at most universities supply the indoctrinated staff.
It promotes the message that women should embrace assertiveness, compete with men and be protected from them.
The philosophy is called feminism but it would be more accurately called “femasculinism”, because really it is a rejection of femininity.
UnitedFuture believes a healthy society should have mana tane and mana wahine working in harmony rather than in conflict — allowing men and women to become “more than the sum of their parts”.
We believe the $5 million a year Ministry of Women’s Affairs should become the “Ministry of Gender Affairs” and address the unique needs of both women and men, rather than trying to socially engineer away biology.
A healthy man who protects, provides for and is loved by his family is unlikely to end up before the courts for bullying them.
The good feeling he gets from that mana tane is likely to keep him around to raise healthy kids with a happy woman.
Make sure you recognise and support good masculinity when you see it in the wild, and go the mighty All Blacks.