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MsStarlett -> RE: Female Supremacy truthful? (6/11/2008 6:49:33 PM)
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I've thought about answering this thread all day. Part of me says "let it lay", the other needs to make a point. Guess which won?
I hold myself out as a Female Supremest. However, I would consider my definition of the title to be closer to Women's Libber on 'roids more than to a White Supremest type.
Granted, men are physically stronger than women. In basic primal society, the man's job was to protect and provide for the women who not only gave life to the next generation but also nurtured and taught them. Men respected and revered Women as not only the givers of life, but also as the givers of great joy, both physical and mental. Most early religions worshiped both the male & female energies in various incarnations as different but equal partners.
It wasn't until Christianity became popular that the Patriarchal concepts were widely embraced. Some circles believe that Christ did not actually teach that a man should be the head of the household, but that the first recorded member of the 'He-Man Woman Hater's Club' - St. Paul - rewrote most of the New Testament to reflect his own personal bias against women. (Don't ask me to quote sources, I studied this in college 25+ years ago and don't remember.)
Now, why do I believe Females to be superior? Females have endured the oppressions of male domination for two thousand years. We probably invented 'passive aggression'. Women had to learn to cope with men telling us that we were not as smart or as strong as they were for all that time. We dealt with having 'woman's work' thrust upon us while we were told we need not worry our pretty heads with education or politics or war. That was 'man's work'. The only way they kept us barefoot and pregnant was because men kept women from learning to READ. An ignorant population is easily dominated.
Guess what? After all those generations, women finally found the pluck to stand up and scream "Bull Shit!" As soon as we started going to school, we learned that we always WERE just as smart as any man. We simply lacked formal education for all females. (Yes, I know, noble women were often educated, but it was not considered 'important' for low born women to know anything except how to have babies.)
After women started getting educated across the boards, we found that we could do other things as well. When all the men went away to World War II, women entered the work force in droves. We found that we COULD do any job that a man could do if they would just step aside and let us try. That greatly wounded the pride of many men who returned from the war to find that their wives didn't WANT to go back home to make babies. They wanted to stay in the work place.... yet they were still expected to do all the 'women's work' as well.
To this day, most households still believe that a woman working 40 hours should still keep the house, take care of the kids, and do all that stuff that 'stay at home' moms do. Luckily, that attitude is changing. To many women are taking that stand again and refusing to do it all alone.
So yes, I believe that females, on the whole, are superior to males because we have always HAD to be better.
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