Connor BeatonFound of ManTalks | Empowering Men to Build Better Lives, Relationships, and Minds

How You Treat Women Reveals Yourself

27 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Connor Beaton explains that the way a person treats women serves as a direct reflection of their relationship with the feminine aspect of their own unconscious, known in Jungian psychology as the anima. He outlines that every individual possesses both masculine and feminine archetypal energies: the masculine represents awareness and cognition of reality, while the feminine embodies the lived, felt experience—emotions, sensations, and vitality. By observing how one interacts with women, one can gauge the health and integration of their inner feminine, offering a practical pathway to self‑understanding.

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How you treat women is how you treat your own unconscious. How you treat women is how you treat the feminine within yourself. The easiest way to begin to understand your own anima, your own relationship with the feminine, because every human being has a relationship to the masculine and to the feminine. So you can think about this as the universal feminine, the archetype of everything that the feminine embodies. The connection to emotions, the connection to the physical form. In Jungian and within many different philosophies, the masculine is sort of like the awareness of what is, and the feminine is the energy of what is happening. So all of the vitality, all the emotions that are coming out, all of your feeling and your sensations, everything that you're experiencing in the moment is the feminine, and the awareness of that happening is the masculine.