Q&A Forum - September 2004

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Men associate themselves with sports teams (college, pro and even high school) as sports become an extension of war. The fight to be number one corrupts the purity of healthy athletic competition, as the male ego must be the best. Win at all costs becomes the goal, not the virtues of teamwork and sportsmanship. The appeal and the following of male professional sports, college sports and high school sports are to satisfy the male ego to be number one. Women sports are very competitive but they do not enjoy the same fanatical following as male sports because they are void of the male ego. Men gain their worth and pride from being number one, be it an endeavor that they participate in personally or be it from a team to whom they pledge their alliance.

Yet, nature has planted the seeds in man for the desire to submit to the so-called weaker gender, the female. The male ego will not admit it but the true nature of man knows that women are not the weaker sex but in fact are superior. That is the law of nature and men have fought that reality since the beginning of human history. So these two forces often clash within the male psyche. It is a battle between the male submissive顺从 — willing to obey nature and the fragile male ego.