Sexuality & Religion: Woman – know thy place!
Feminism and
the psychosis behind organised faith systems
Equality
amongst the sexes, a fair crack of the whip for all; but what place (if any)
does so-called ‘Feminism’ hold within the religions of this planet?
Okay folks; at the customary risk of
displeasing the overtly sensitive (who labour under fashionable yet invalid perceptions)
and those who fail to ‘read between the lines’, due to terminally heated or
insecure personalities, I will have a crack at explaining things a little
further.
Our
earliest ancestors living a ‘Hunter-gatherer’ type of existence were not
troubled by modern confabulations of equality. Diet, warmth, mating and overall
survival against hostile environments remained the most imperative aspects
prominent in the minds of the first Homo sapiens.
Like
many other animals surrounding them our forbears got on with whatever they did
best. To do otherwise would have been irrational and simply led to hunger and
ultimately death. The most aggressive and physically potent members of a tribe
(either male or female) would fashion weapons and venture out into dangerous
regions to hunt game for food.
To
some extent historical conditioning/taboos have robbed women of their right to
choose and their abilities, which once gave them the respect that they were
rightly due. Size and strength, the macho-image, is a sad result of aeons of
patriarchal human mind-manipulation. Originally, like in numerous other animal
species, the sexes were on a similar functional basis. Powerful women were once
just as dangerous as any man and of course ’still’ are today.
Evidence
of such parallels in nature abound. A powerful Lioness will often do the
hunting whilst the lazier male suns himself in the shade. What is of paramount
importance is the individual's own ‘personal’ potential, regardless of gender.
Man-man prohibitions and doctrine affected the individual liberties of the
masses. Ruling priesthoods, to enable them to thrust their intolerance upon
society, created sexual stereotypes.
The
old mediaeval Christian witch figure of a hag on a broomstick is a prime
example of a male-dominated religion enforcing its prejudice on a naive
culture. This single occurrence has done more to damage and de-empower
elderly females than any other in western history. Restrictions on 'individuality'
go hand in hand with any fundamentalist credo.
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