Random AI answer on what are masculine traits:
"Masculine traits traditionally embody strength, assertiveness, and leadership, often focusing on protection, accountability, and emotional stability."
You sure you don't want any of those? How I look at it is that we all have all traits, just that they're always somewhere on a scale of, let's say 0-100. And some of those traits are more prevalent in males, some in females - hence the masculine/feminine dichotomy. An average woman might have a trait of "nurturing" at 80. For an average man that may be like 20. But even though that is a feminine trait, a man should also be able to embody it to a degree whenever necessary or apt.
How this dichotomy even arose in the first place comes down to biological differences between men and women.
You're spot on with "it seems that the same women who complain about supposed “male dominance” are the ones willingly and eagerly adopting masculine energy and masculine traits" - why that exactly is, is anyone's guess, but mine would be: 1) the men in those women's lives have been either too weak, too feminine or too rigidly masculine and they subconsciously compensate for it 2) they have underdeveloped their own femininity and started to overdevelop masculine traits to compensate 3) they have bought into the idea that the patriarchy is responsible for all (or most of) the evils in the world
I would also recommend looking into the idea of anima and animus by Carl Jung. The anima is the unconscious feminine side of a man, while the animus is the unconscious masculine side of a woman.
"Masculine traits traditionally embody strength, assertiveness, and leadership, often focusing on protection, accountability, and emotional stability."
You sure you don't want any of those? How I look at it is that we all have all traits, just that they're always somewhere on a scale of, let's say 0-100. And some of those traits are more prevalent in males, some in females - hence the masculine/feminine dichotomy. An average woman might have a trait of "nurturing" at 80. For an average man that may be like 20. But even though that is a feminine trait, a man should also be able to embody it to a degree whenever necessary or apt.
How this dichotomy even arose in the first place comes down to biological differences between men and women.
You're spot on with "it seems that the same women who complain about supposed “male dominance” are the ones willingly and eagerly adopting masculine energy and masculine traits" - why that exactly is, is anyone's guess, but mine would be: 1) the men in those women's lives have been either too weak, too feminine or too rigidly masculine and they subconsciously compensate for it 2) they have underdeveloped their own femininity and started to overdevelop masculine traits to compensate 3) they have bought into the idea that the patriarchy is responsible for all (or most of) the evils in the world
I would also recommend looking into the idea of anima and animus by Carl Jung. The anima is the unconscious feminine side of a man, while the animus is the unconscious masculine side of a woman.