Basic principles of gender equality
Jan Janssen
March 8, 2011 (International Women’s Day).
Principles of one gender in regards to the other gender:
You exist … I exist
In essence, you are good … in essence, I am good.
You and I are both human beings and as human we are equals.
Also as man and woman you and I are equals.
As a human being both you and I are powerful and as well as vulnerable.
You and I have a lot in common and we have important differences as well.
Man to woman:
As a woman you are powerful as well as vulnerable.
Woman to man:
As a man you are powerful as well as vulnerable.
Man to woman or woman to man:
You have something I don’t have … I have something you don’t have.
To realize as man towards woman:
When you share your feminine essence with me, I get better.
When I share my masculine essence with you, you get better .
To realize as woman towards man:
When you share your masculine essence with me, I get better.
When I share my feminine essence with you, you get better.
Man to woman:
When you receive me respectfully as a man, I get better.
When I receive you respectfully as a woman, you get better.
Woman to man:
When you receive me respectfully as a woman, I get better.
When I receive you respectfully as a man, you get better.
Man to woman:
When you take from me as a man without respect, you hurt yourself.
When I take from you as a woman without respect, I hurt myself.
Woman to man:
When you take from me as a woman without respect, you hurt yourself.
When I take from you as a man without respect, I hurt myself.
Man to woman:
When you compete with me as a man, you diminish yourself.
When I compete with you as a woman, I diminish myself.
Woman to man:
When you compete with me as a woman, you diminish yourself.
When I compete with you as a man, I diminish myself.
Man to woman:
When you allow your female essence to complement my masculine essence, you do not only enhance both me and yourself, at the same time you also transcend me, yourself and us.
When I allow my masculine essence to complement your female essence, I do not only enhance both me and yourself, at the same time I also transcend me, yourself and us.
Woman to man:
When you allow your masculine essence to complement my female essence, you do not only enhance both me and yourself, at the same time you also transcend me, yourself and us.
When I allow my female essence to complement your masculine essence, I do not only enhance both me and yourself, at the same time I also transcend me, yourself and us.