Of Man and Woman, the Ethical and Soren Kierkegaard.

“Could there really be one single woman simple-minded and vain and pitiable enough to believe that within the category of man she could be more perfect than man, not to perceive that her loss would be irreparable?
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But poor devils [the men] know not what they do, they themselves do not have what it takes to be men, instead they would corrupt woman and be united with her on condition of remaining what they are, half-men, with woman promoted to the same miserable condition.” —Soren Kierkegaard.

The woman is, for a man, his roots and a solid foothold in the realm of finiteness. Man is incomplete and powerless before the world God created for him. For it is not a matter of rule by men but of the world of men—a world created by men who are grounded by women.

“For this reason, I hate all the contemptible talk of the emancipation of women.”

What does she gain in her equality to a man when such equality means a world made by half-men? No one to live for, work for, or die for. What a world we wish for when women are promoted to the same miserable condition as men. A condition of misery known as the life of men without women. Is that justice for either of them? Those determined to believe that justice is shared power do not understand that power is despair. It is the curse of men to have power.

“When man was created he stood there, lord and master of all nature’s pomp and splendor, the entire wealth of finiteness awaiting his beck and call, but he did not know what to do with it all... Thus he stood, an imposing figure, inwardly thoughtful but comic, for one must indeed smile at this rich man who did not know how to use his wealth, but also tragic because he could not use it. Then woman was created. She was no embarrassment, she knew straight away how to take the matter… This [she] was the first comfort to be bestowed upon mankind.” —Kierkegaard.

Those obsessed with power know only love for the possibilities experienced by possessing it. But what is a life lived chasing only the possibility of more possibilities? What is power but having more choices at one's disposal? What is choice but despair. A man doesn't rule a woman but completes himself in her and for their sake.

That is why [...] it does not say in the scriptures that the maiden shall leave father and mother and cleave unto her husband, ... it says, 'A man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife,' for inasmuch as she give him finiteness she is stronger than he.

To my Wife,

O Moreno