Natural Humanists believe that, in our species’ history, a person’s gender was significant and would affect all of their behaviour and roles in life. For example, men would protect their family or community, including by using aggression or violence, and would be hunters of animals and gatherers of wild plant foods, possibly wandering miles from home to do so, whereas women, as well as possibly being hunter gatherers themselves, would be the sole or main caregivers and nurturers, would prepare meals, and would often care for, and nurture large numbers of children, as many children died in childhood, and offspring were essential to support them in older age, due to the lack of any social security, health or care systems.
Despite these historical gender roles, which, in our past, were very important, Natural Humanists believe that, today, there is no benefit to anybody behaving in these gender-specific ways, unless they choose to, and that, in many cases, doing so can be significantly harmful to society, and to the world in general.
They believe that, in most cases, historically ‘male’ traits, like competitiveness, aggression and physical strength, are of no significant benefit to today’s society at all, and can often be harmful, whereas historically ‘female’ traits, like emotional intelligence, sensitivity and a nurturing, caring, supportive and affectionate nature, are hugely beneficial to society. They believe, therefore, that all human beings, including children, of all genders, should be encouraged and supported to repress all inappropriate ‘male’ traits and drives, and to develop, instead, positive ‘female’ traits and behaviours, and that they should always be appreciated and celebrated for doing so.
They acknowledge that going against a lifetime of ‘grooming’, by family, friends, and society as a whole, to have ‘toxic’ beliefs and to behave in ‘toxic’ ways, is very challenging for every single human being, but they also acknowledge that this is significantly more challenging for both boys and men, for whom both ‘toxic’ behaviour and risk-taking, are also, significantly, a result of strong natural male instincts and genetic-drives, which are at the very heart of their humanity. Consequently, Natural Humanists always try to support and encourage every boy or man, who chooses to go against these strong drives, and to live a positive ‘feminine’ life, and they try to always celebrate all of their efforts, and any of their achievements, in trying to do so.
They acknowledge that, since the end of the 20th century, in many countries, men and boys have been increasingly free to behave in traditionally ‘female’ ways, and society, in some cases, has encouraged them to do so, but they also acknowledge that girls and women have also been increasingly free to behave in traditionally ‘male’ ways, and again society, in some cases, has encouraged them to do so, and has praised them whenever they did.
In today’s world, pre-pubescent girls usually behave in significantly ‘feminine’ ways, which have the potential to be highly beneficial to society, and to both the planet and to nature as a whole, including being very affectionate, caring, considerate, gentle, kind, open-minded, sensitive, supportive and thoughtful.
Sadly, in today’s world, because of the toxicity of society as a whole, only a minority of girls manage to successfully carry all of these hugely positive traits into puberty and beyond, such as the strong, mature, capable, but highly feminine movie characters played by Angourie Rice in ‘The Nice Guys’, Anna Sophia Robb in ‘Bridge to Terabithia’, Anna Chlumsky in ‘My Girl II’, Anna Paquin in ‘Fly Away Home’, Elle Fanning in ‘We Bought a Zoo’, Natasha Calis in ‘Can’t Come Out to Play’, Nicholle Tom in ‘Beethoven II’, Christina Ricci in ‘Casper’, Marine Casto in ‘A Good Year’, Odeya Rush in ‘Goosebumps’, Rachel Hurd-Wood in ‘Peter Pan’, Sophie Nélisse in ‘The Book Thief ’and Kara Hayward in ‘Moonrise Kingdom’.
As soon as adolescence increases the influence of their peers and toxic society, girls often develop historically ‘male’ traits, behaviours and opinions, such as arrogance and aggression, and they become more cold, competitive, controlling, critical, defensive, hard, insensitive, judgmental, materialistic, selfish, spiteful and vein. They then often carry these traits into their adulthood, frequently being encouraged to exhibit them by their friends, families and colleagues, by society as a whole, and also by capitalism, which rates and rewards these masculine traits very highly indeed.
A very common example of this ‘learned toxicity’ in pubescent girls, is the pleasure many girls gain in humiliating others by videoing or photographing people, without their permission, in embarrassing situations, so that they can then ‘share’ these with their friends on social media, humiliating the person concerned, demonstrating a distressing lack of concern for that person’s feelings, a real coldness and lack of sensitivity, and a competitive ‘one-upmanship’, as they’re often trying to make themselves look superior in comparison.
Many girls also become openly intolerant, and sometimes even aggressively critical, of any boy or man who they consider to be ‘insufficiently’ masculine, as if toxic ‘masculine’ traits, or a ‘butch’ physique, or arrogance and dominance are an ‘essential requirement’ of anybody born with a penis.
Natural Humanists are strongly against all such toxicity in all human beings and strongly believe that all parents should work very hard to nurture their children to lose all such toxic traits, and also to encourage them not to develop them in the first place.
They believe strongly that, in the modern world, every human being, of every age and gender, should be encouraged to think and behave, as much as possible, like a pre-pubescent girl, and should always be recognised and celebrated for exhibiting, and encouraging other people to exhibit, these hugely beneficial human traits.
Although all girls are different, and some have been negatively affected by toxic parenting and negative societal influences, in general, Natural Humanists believe that pre-pubescent girls are the most natural, authentic form of ‘Natural Human’, whose qualities we, as a species, should all, collectively, attempt to nurture and emulate.
They acknowledge that a minority of pubescent girls manage to completely avoid, or to successfully battle against, this strong and widespread ‘toxic grooming’ by their peers and society, and so they manage to retain all of the wonderful qualities that they had as a pre-pubescent girl, with some even managing to go on to strengthen and develop these qualities, usually because they’re either an ‘outsider’, who has had less social contact with their peers, or because they’ve experienced traumatic life events or significant bullying, which increases their sensitivity to others’ feelings, or because they’re unusually intelligent, or emotionally intelligent, or compassionate, or have had a particularly strong moral education and upbringing, and they acknowledge that the same is also true of a minority of pubescent boys and in children of other genders.
Natural Humanists recognise, love and celebrate people of all cis and trans genders, and of all sexualities, equally, but they believe that, quite separate from human beings’ gender and sexuality, everyone should always think and behave, as much as possible, in a feminine way.
For Natural Humanists, the future, for all human beings, should be feminine, and every human being should discourage all traditionally masculine traits, in all boys, girls, men and women, throughout their lives. They believe that ever tolerating, or celebrating, any type or degree of toxic ‘masculine’ behaviour, in any human being, both normalises it, and allows it to dominate our society, something that Natural Humanists believe should always be avoided, and is always morally wrong.
They believe that the strong natural drive to exhibit toxic masculine traits, should never be criticised or punished in any boy or man, as this is absolutely what nature ‘intended’ for them, historically. However, at human beings’ current stage of evolution, these masculine traits have ceased to have any beneficial purpose in a decent society, and so, we should all commit ourselves to take the final voluntary step, to ‘evolve’ into the deeply caring, tolerant, nurturing, supportive, affectionate and infinitely loving species that evolution has already given every one of us the full capacity to become. We should all actively and voluntarily evolve into ‘Natural Humans’, who share citizenship of this planet with all other living things, and never intentionally cause harm or suffering to anybody, or anything, ever.
Natural Humanists believe that every human being in the world is already capable of ‘evolving’ into such a ‘Natural Human’, if they choose to actively do so, and that anybody who already shares all of Natural Humanism’s core values and beliefs, is also already a Natural Humanist, even if they don’t know that they are. However, they believe that it’s very important for all such Natural Humanists to make a conscious choice, and a lifelong commitment, to actually live every part of their lives in line with their beliefs, and to publicly declare these beliefs, and share them freely, but respectfully, with as many other people as possible.
For Natural Humanists, without question, the ‘future is feminine’, and every human being, throughout their life, should always, wherever possible, try to be ‘more like a girl’.