The 22nd year of being Ryan Hartley, documented.

For so long now man has had power over women, in physicality and in provision. While men have worked and earned money, women have slaved in homes and for families which provided them with none of the power that money does. With man’s power over women came abuses of that power; physical, emotional. So in response we sought to empower women, to give them a force of their own with which to combat men. And that was right, because there were women who needed liberation from imprisonment.

But it is not the ideal.

I can’t help but think that we lose part of what it means to be joined to another when we insist on arming love against itself, in ensuring a separation of what is essentially one.

Should we then not empower women, leaving them to the mercy of man? We can’t, because we must protect them, but it is not good. Never idealise this separation, never seek it where it is possible for love to join two as one. Don’t push women away from men and then act as if this was The Plan all along.

A Biblical Bit

Mark 10

5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” (speaking about divorce) Jesus replied.
6 “But at the beginning of creation God `made them male and female.’
7 `For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”