Medieval mysticism and the side wound

Not my most structured blog post, but I cannot stop thinking about the side wound. 

 Coincidentally enough, medieval European Christians also could not stop thinking about the side wound. They were Obsessed with the wound in Christs side that was punctured during his crucifixion. The side wound would end up in art and poems and plenty of mystics had visions of drinking from or touch the inside of the wound in Christs side. It's pretty hard to avoid just how sexual the imagery can get. 

It's sexuality isn't what's unique (considering the song of solomon) but the inherent feminine imagery of it does strike me as fascinating, considering medieval Europe wasn't especially pro-women in any sense. Though there is an argument to be made that there is a lot of symbolic ties between the coming of Christ and birth in the new testament. Just interesting that despite the misogyny of the time they still picked up on that femininity in their mysticism. I am not sure you could get away with that kind of thing today. As many Christians in the modern era love to emphasis the masculinity of Christ rather than his more feminine traits.

 Me myself I find the obsession with Christ as a masculine and dominate figure as somewhat dangerous? Christ calls you to be meek and to lower yourself to love and help your neighbor self sacrificially,To be a servant. These are not things associated with a dominate kind of masculinity, but traits typically considered feminine. I can't help but to believe if you become obsessed with Christ as this image of a strong manly leader who leads with a flaming sword in hand, and wrath in his eyes, than you have lost sight of the point completely.