Why I'm not allowing myself to be as vulnerable with women as I am with men ?

@daydeeo looks you just got to know about mansplaining recently.

@in10RjFox that's interesting. In my viewpoint the energies are interchangeable.
So in this case I'd say that the internet in its wholeness as a web-space and platform is feminine and our exchange is masculine.

But when it comes to a traditional home, men used to provide the shelter/structural building, more like how birds build a nest, then feminine fills it up with its multiplying spirits (joy, kids, etc)

Nowadays both energies do so.

I understand how a feminine energy can exist in a man's body and vice versa.
I understand also how a woman can go through a masculine era or a man through a feminine era.
But our bodies, as intelligent expressions of the energies, are mostly built towards one polarity or the other, again in the meaning of expressing this polarity.

And of course within us, we all contain both feminine and masculine energies.

In Chinese cosmology (brief intro but containing a lot already), there's the Yin and Yang (Taiji) who came from the Wholeness (Wuji, Oneness) and they later divided into 4 elements(energies):
Tai Yin (meaning the most feminine energy)
Tai Yang (the most masculine)
Lesser Yin and
Lesser Yang (self explanatory).
Then these later divided into 8 energies
I've studied for a year in China Taiji (Taichi) and Bagua (Baguazhang) and am very interested in exploring the energies. My perspectives are shifting, regarding the era I'm walking through, so I'm always interested in exploring...:)

@being
That's just fantastic. You can see you understand better when you apply. But you need to breakaway from beliefs and also analyse various things you were taught, as it would cause a lot of conflicts within you.

Let me give you some more findings that can help you transform your beliefs to knowledge, as once we know, we would stop believing.

* Masculinity (yang) the formless is always contained within feminity (yin) like a child in the womb of a mother.

* We were made to believe that we are opposite sexes, but in real we are complementing sexes of the same gender.

* Gender is dynamic and not static, as evolution let's nothing to remain in the same state. ( Which agrees with your observation of masculine era & feminine era).

* Books and education is what makes us believe and assume things, without letting us analyse and come to an understanding on our own.

I am really in awe by your interest and disposition to learn. You are very close to attain Nirvana on your own.

Let me know if you are interested in reading further.

I find the opposite to be true😅
Women rarely interpret friendliness as something more. Unlike men. Just a simple smile is enough to make them think you’re flirting, and they’ll start hitting on you right away

@Nunki Yes but it's a bit different. I guess I try to be politely nice to everyone but wouldn't mind as much if a man misinterpreted my intentions than if a woman would. It doesn't mean that it's something that would likely happen, it's just a paranoia in my head. 😅

@ScreamingFox For the majority of men this is sad, but true. 😔

@Nunki yes, 2