Tag: Patriarchy
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Why Worry About Same-Sex Marriage and Trans-ideologies?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy worry about same-sex marriage and trans-ideologies? This article is not a rejection of same-sex partners and trans people. It’s a request for the missing narrative about hetrosexual relations and how they affect social organization. Currently it is being drowned out by a particular version of a patriarchal narrative. It is more…
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Plato’s War on Women
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe foundation of the ancient Greeks’ project for civilization was their determination to turn the female sex into a subject population. But there were unintended consequences. Plato’s war on women helped bring about the end of monarchy. Philo There is evidence that the Greeks were toying with the idea of subjecting women…
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Humanity at the Crossroads
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just read the New York Times article about the baby homes in Ireland. Patriarchal ‘morality’ creates a throwaway culture. It turns love to hatred, beauty to ugliness, and human kindness to cruelty. If we really want to make things better we have to let it go. [1] [1] Ireland wanted…
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Onan and the Patriarchal Agenda
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis issue of women’s rights is at the center of any serious discussion about political reform. It can be argued that women’s rights are synonymous with human rights, or that the repression of women is the foundation of all repression. Every repressive regime in the world has developed a rationale for limiting…
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New America Foundation, Quiverfull and the Attack on Reproductive Rights
Reading Time: 14 minutesOn March 31, an opinion was published on the Yahoo Contributor’s Network concerning a Tennessee mother who had her son baptized without the permission of her estranged husband. in this man’s opinion she should go to jail. ((Poupard, Vincent L. Mother who baptized children without consent needs to go to jail. Yahoo…
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Is the King James Translation of the Bible the Cause of Christian Error?
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeanwhile, back at the Patriarchy article an editor has been arguing that Sarah Grimke did not question the divine origin of the scriptures; she only doubted the King James translation. In my opinion this distinction doesn’t change things much, although it makes an interesting discussion. (The claim that Grimke questioned the divine…