The masculine energy is a bit messy, isn’t it? If we were still in a primal, tribal era, the masculine energy would be expected to defend our tribe, survival of the fittest. That would mean learning to hunt, fight, use weapons, kill to make sure our tribe is protected. If some other tribe was trying to harm you or your family, you may get blood on your hands. It would be dirty and you would have to go to a different mind-space to do something like that.
But I don’t see much difference when it comes to competitive culture today, in business, money, politics, sports. A masculine energy will use the competitive mindset with the fear of losing to drive them to work harder, fight and try to win and be dominant. Competition is literal survival, compete or be extinct. It’s a cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, alpha dominant culture. It can get messy, maybe dirty, maybe it’s expected, maybe it’s what’s required to survive.
We’re assuming that the primal function of fear is our only survival mechanism. So as a society we don’t value feminine energy as a driving force of competition or place of leadership as we do masculine energy. And maybe frequently someone with a feminine energy might try to replace and replicate a masculine energy in a competitive setting. If the feminine energy is not a value of this competitive mindset, the question I have is, is the masculine energy the only viable way to “win” or survive in a competition.
I think there is value in a competitive mindset, but the value isn’t in just “winning” or “surviving”. The value is in, who you become in this process. Does “winning” only serve to prop up and bolster a sense of worth, self and ego? Or can “winning” be a function of learning more compassion, care and empathy. We live in a time where winning or surviving doesn’t have to be the ends. And I think we live in a time where we can learn, inherit and embrace more feminine energy to fulfill leadership and competition with compassion, care and empathy on a path toward valuing, learning and embracing both as equivalents.