Arguments on Theme of Loneliness

However, more importantly, the study will argue that Kolbenschlag commits a number of fallacies in her argument which are based on assumptions about women and men and society. Specifically, the author reveals a common bias among women writers today who see the problems of society and relationships as results of too much emphasis on masculine values and too little emphasis on feminine values.

The author is a feminist who believes that we and our society suffer from loneliness, alienation and estrangement as a result of the devaluing of the feminine principle which is based on cooperation, interdependence, caregiving and nurturing. She is not saying that the masculine principle and its emphasis on independence and self-sufficiency is wrong, only that a society which denigrates the feminine and glorifies the masculine will be out of balance and full of lonely people (the "orphans" of the title). After telling the tale of Macha, a woman who overcame male domination, the author writes:

The Celtic myth of Macha is an awesome metaphor for the wound in our cont

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For example, we read that Women often feel guilty for having these needs---needs for closeness, intimacy, dependency, sharing, nurturance---and they fear the loss of relationships because they are afraid their need will drive others away, especially men (85). Are not men just as afraid to reveal their needs and vulnerability? The author says that this is true, but "men have traditionally denied or disguised their need for emotional dependency while getting it met" (85). Have they? The reader might ask how it is that women so often declare indignantly that men are so blind to women's nature, needs, feelings, and so on, and yet those same women seem so arrogantly certain that they know what is going on emotionally and psychologically with men. The author fails to recognize the power of the codependent relationship between men and women in this society. She, like many other women writers on this subject, assumes that if women felt safe in their relationships with a men, they would immediately and whole-heartedly expose their innermost feelings and thoughts day and night without hesitation. However, it may well be that women only claim this would happen because they are so rarely in the position of having to put up or shut up. In
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Approximate Word count = 1607
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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