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Sunday, December 01, 2013

Anti Woman Myths

Here's a very well researched piece on how many anti-woman myths are still around today. A great example...

During the Dark Ages, and ever since then, women were considered property: They were defined by their relationships to men (flipping the ancient matrilineal code on its head). Their father, husband or even brother could make demands of her and she was bound to obey. Most marriages were arranged, even in the lower classes. A wife had no separate legal status apart from her being married to her husband. Women, with few exceptions, could not participate in public life, politics or the justice system (unless she was the accused). A woman was pretty much expected to stay at home, keep house and have kids. Especially the latter, as the interpretation of Genesis 3:16 (and other parts of that book) was that women were compelled to have as many children as they could, even at the cost of her or the children’s welfare. This is still the way some men feel.

Any time I hear dire predictions about 2014, I usually refer people to stuff like this. It's very hard for the nutballs to hide on women's issues.

4 comments:

Juris Imprudent said...

And yet, here you are, apostle of a religious tradition of subjecting women to second class status.

If you are right now, how does that explain all of the other believers in the same god who got it wrong?

Nikto said...

"If you are right now, how does that explain all of the other believers in the same god who got it wrong?"

I seriously can't believe you can ask a question like this. Do you know how many different sects of Christianity there are, that have differences in dogma as basic as the divinity of Christ? Every tenet of Christianity has dozens of different interpretations, many of which are rejected outright by some sects.

And that's in the same religion. Considering that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all share the same god, the number of believers in the same god who get it wrong numbers literally in the billions. That means everyone who believes in god gets something wrong, in someone's opinion. Yet, you know in your heart that you've got everything dead on the way God wants it.

The obvious answer is that God has nothing to do with these misogynistic beliefs. These are simply traditions that men have forced on their societies to maintain their power.

GuardDuck said...

Well researched? Maybe on things that were 'thought' back then. Not a lot of research in pinning those things to what conservatives believe today. A lot of inference, conjecture and fantasy though.

Juris Imprudent said...

I seriously can't believe you can ask a question like this.

Socratic method, and as was not unexpected, you fail.