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njlauren -> RE: Female Supremacy (6/23/2013 9:06:01 AM)
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There are some people out there who claim female supremacy, there is a church of female supremacy (501c3 and all that), and in the Wiccan world the Dianic and Cybellian trads if I recall correctly have a form of that (with Wicca it is hard, because there generally is no 'church' with that, even with trads beliefs and practices differ). From time to time I met people in the BD/SM world who belonged to such groups but I didn't get any kind of reading for them that they felt women should be running the world or it is outside their own relationships, but who knows. The interesting part to me about the churches is that if I remember correctly, the argument is the goddess created everything and is female, so therefore women have a superior position...which I found interesting but also sad, it is like the Catholic church's view of women not being fit to be priests cause Christ supposedly chose male disciples, or those arguing God is male and therefore males are superior (or God created Eve from Adam's rib, so she obviously was second class), it totally misses the point that the divine is male and female, and neither, that the Goddess represents an image, a type, for humans to put a handle on it, not reality....
And yeah, often the male sub with the female supremacy ideas have a vision of a barbie doll wife who is superwomen.....I kind of would love to see what their relationships are like, because being held up on a pedestal like that has to be nerve racking or worse....it is like the total TPE's I have read about, I wonder about the reality of it, in how much strain that to me would put on the domme in question. It doesn't mean it isn't real, it is just that I can't see reality making that kind of thing very easy to do...
I often wonder if the whole female supremacy thing is kind of a counterbalance to try and bring women to equality, that we have a social system that in secular and religious culture put women into a position of inequality, and this is an attempt to balance things out, by 'forcing' the notion of female superiority, it kind of attempts to drag things to the middle. I don't think men or women are superior, I think there are people within both groups who in context of situations, are superior in that, for example, there are women who make great leaders, there are women who I wouldn't want running the PTA (Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, or any number of granola heads I have met along the way), same with men. One of the raging debates going on these days is with women moving up into the executive ranks, running companies, and when someone fails, like Carly Fiorentina at HP, people jump on that as proof of something, or the woman who just took over at Yahoo, meanwhile, they don't bother to mention their predecessors, all of whom lost their jobs because they sucked, or the many CEO's who get canned each year and so forth:).
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