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    %MACHO WEAKNESS HUMILITY PRAYER OPENNESS GENTLE+950510
    %HONESTY INTEGRITY COOPERATION RESPECT DOMINANT 950510

     Often  macho people regard the following as signs  of
weakness  and  vulnerability---and so as  invitations  for
domination:

     HUMILITY     PRAYER     OPENNESS     HONESTY

     GENTLENESS   INTEGRITY  JUSTICE      COOPERATION

     It  is  a  dilemma  to be in a  macho  culture  where
personal  and communal integrity are always under  threat.
It  is  surrender  to adopt the macho  mentality  in  self
defense.    It  is surrender to yield as a victim  to  the
macho behavior patterns.

     Often gentle honesty and withholding of respect  will
promote  personal  and communal  integrity---where  people
might  not   expect success of anything other  than  macho
responses   to   macho  mentality  and  behaviors.     The
response  to  macho  behaviors does not  have  to  be  the
surrender of a victim of attack.   Either/or thinking   is
the   kind  of thinking  which  needs  to  be transcended.
Dichotomous   alternatives  do  not   offer freedom   from
domination and victimization.    We need  to transcend the
alternatives which macho mentalities offer.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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