Sex and Gender Beyond Patriarchy

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Sex and Gender Beyond Patriarchy

Sex and Gender Beyond Patriarchy

Workshop leader: Brigitte Hansmann

Typically, patriarchal traditions attribute certain capacities to a gender, such as strength and reasoning to men and weakness and emotionality to women. In addition, beyond men and women, they do not contemplate the existence of other genders. But, there are strong women and sensitive men. There are people who feel neither male nor female and others who feel they are the opposite sex to the one attributed to them due to the genitals with which they were born. In any case, patriarchal cultures tend to impose a series of "rules of normality" and those who do not correspond to the prevailing stereotype run the risk of exclusion or loss of authenticity.

But, to be authentically strong, a man's masculinity must be accompanied by receptivity that enables him for a clear sensory perception. A woman's femininity can be full only if it is accompanied by the ability to discern, make decisions, and take incisive actions. By themselves, these capacities are not related to sex or gender.

The functions of the left hemisphere of the brain have a narrow, concrete, detailed focus, which enables them for analysis, discernment, decision-making, critical opinions, all incisive functions. The right hemisphere, on the other hand, has receptive functions, such as sensory perception and intuition, the ability to nourish and care for people, things and situations. Its focus is broad to encompass the whole, the totality, the spaces between the details, the relationships between them. Based on the shape of the genitals of men and women, we could say that the incisive functions are masculine and the receptive functions are feminine. To conclude from this that men and women have more than one quality and less of others, only according to their sex, is one of the typical fallacies of patriarchal traditions, fostered by polarized power structures, without foundation in the reality of flesh and blood people.

Workshop participants explore their patterns through the daily movements of breathing, lying down, sitting, standing, walking and communicating, individually, in guided sequences and in explorations in pairs, small groups and in the whole group. The theoretical part of the workshop provides the necessary information to understand how these patterns are generated and how they manifest themselves in the relationship between the body and the Earth's gravitational field.

To realize how we occupy space with the body and in what relationship we hold ourselves with the coordinates of the Earth's gravitational field, we first need to receive sensory information from the whole body and its relationship with the environment, that is, the ground under our feet and the space around us. Secondly, we must know how to discern different types of sensations: on the one hand, those that inform us of what is real now, the ground below, the space around us, the freedom or restriction of respiratory movements, etc., and on the other, the sensations that were recorded in the tissues of our body under the initial conditions of our life. These sensations present us with the implicit memories of those early times of our lives as if they reflected a current reality. In other words, a good relationship of communication and cooperation between the incisive and receptive functions is necessary. And the receptive must come first. And it is this kind of relationship that we want to create between men and women and people who define their gender in a different way.

In any case, a good relationship with the Earth's gravitational field provides us with an energy that gives us a feeling of elevation and ease in movement, a feeling of living and moving in unison with a greater force that enables us to go through and resolve conflictive situations. A misalignment produces discomfort and, in the long run, dysfunction and disease.

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