JM (and now that I know you’re female it explains a lot–like I said, I went through the intensive feminist indoctrination starting at age 12 or so, sisterhood is powerful, the men have oppressed us, our bodies/ourselves yadda yadda and probably for even longer than you’ve been exposed to it). . .
JM, what I’d like to ask of you is to step back and to think about things like tradition and history, synedoche, etymology, men, women, and children, and the catechism. . .
without the very ‘new’, very pointed, very ‘anti’ and very angsty and discriminatory ‘worldview’ of radical feminism.
You see, right now, you are looking in a very focused and narrow way through the lens of what you have been conditioned to believe in–a lens that says 'women have been deliberately, systematically denied, repressed, treated badly–and we are going to demand to be treated properly–but not just now. No, we are going to demand that literature be ‘rewritten’ to give us ‘equality’. History be ‘rewritten’ to give us ‘equality’. Job descriptions be ‘rewritten’ to give us ‘equality’. It doesn’t matter that a person living in ancient Greece didn’t ‘believe’ in equality for individual men–let alone women–and we ‘still’ do not give children ‘equal’ status to men and women, do we? No, we are going to insist that because in our society we want ‘equality’ we are going to ‘level the field’. Because 200 years ago there were no women given a doctorate in medicine, we are going to rewrite historical texts first ‘elevate’ women of that time to ‘equality’ of knowledge (IOW, we are going to start saying that the ‘wise’ women did the same things as surgeons or physicians but just didn’t have the degree). Then, we’re going to make them ‘superior’ by saying, look, without a degree they were doing men’s work. In the teeth of male ‘supremacy’. Then, we will ‘retroactively’ accuse the men then of deliberately attempting to keep women out of medicine because the women were ‘better’ and men wanted to keep women barefoot and pregnant.
This is the mindset that is trying to get everyday women like you and me thinking that ‘we’ as women have been oppressed and treated badly and that, by God, we have to do something about it–we have to prove not our equality–and basically in western society our mothers and grandmothers not only voted with men but also worked with men and had equal ‘voices’ etc., so this isn’t a ‘new’ thing–we have to prove our ‘superiority’ by elevating prior generations not to simple equality of soul (which is really the only ‘equality’ that any person shares with another), but to superiority of everything.
Those dumb slogans like "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle’, "a woman’s place is in the house–and the senate’, "a woman must be work twice as hard as a man to be thought half as good–fortunately, this is not difficult’–these are not aimed at producing equality but rather in despising, demonizing, and marginalizing men.
Women, wake up! Building yourselves up by tearing down men, by making them the butt of jokes or the ‘evil’ source of every perceived ‘wrong’ in the entire history of humanity–will only keep people further apart, angry, resentful, and incapable of working together.
