Comments on: The Monarch archetype http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/30/the-monarch-archetype/ Archetypes and Personal Development - the only website make sense of them both Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:28:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Administrator http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/30/the-monarch-archetype/#comment-262 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:18:37 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/30/the-monarch-archetype/#comment-262 Good point - and yet we have to look at the specifics in each case. Most of these women were working in a man's world, so there was a chance for them to balance out the polarized energies. Elizabeth I was a tough cookie, but she refused to be someone's wife, she refused to be the quiet queen, and she tried awfully hard to bring peace and stability to England. Golda Meir was probably the only person who could have held Isreal together at that point in its history - and she did, aiming for peace. And so on. In none of these cases do we have anything close to a dictator of the Hitler/Stalin type. Not even close. Perhaps the female energy simply does not become tyrannical in the same way as the male energy. I can't think of any examples more sinister than Catherine the Great.... Allan Good point - and yet we have to look at the specifics in each case. Most of these women were working in a man’s world, so there was a chance for them to balance out the polarized energies. Elizabeth I was a tough cookie, but she refused to be someone’s wife, she refused to be the quiet queen, and she tried awfully hard to bring peace and stability to England. Golda Meir was probably the only person who could have held Isreal together at that point in its history - and she did, aiming for peace. And so on.
In none of these cases do we have anything close to a dictator of the Hitler/Stalin type. Not even close.
Perhaps the female energy simply does not become tyrannical in the same way as the male energy. I can’t think of any examples more sinister than Catherine the Great….
Allan

]]> by: Mary Lou Shields http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/30/the-monarch-archetype/#comment-257 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:46:30 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/30/the-monarch-archetype/#comment-257 Does your analogy hold for female leaders? Elizabeth I came to mind. Golda Meir. Wangari Maathai. Shirley Chisholm, our nation's first African American Congresswoman who unsuccessfully sought the Democatric nomination back in 1972. Gender and tyranny. Food for thought. MLou Does your analogy hold for female leaders? Elizabeth I came to mind. Golda Meir. Wangari Maathai. Shirley Chisholm, our nation’s first African American Congresswoman who unsuccessfully sought the Democatric nomination back in 1972.

Gender and tyranny.
Food for thought.
MLou

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