![]() This ideology imposes heavy sanctions against formation of female alliances around shared experiences and/or oppressions associated with our anatomy and its functions. Our Biblical scapegoating does not hold the same Western universality as it did a century ago, but today there is an ideology that insists that womanhood is nothing more than a social construct and that female anatomy can be acquired through surgery. Denying us personhood was ordained by “the Word.” So were other forms of enslavement. This stain on our lineage became the excuse for keeping us subordinated. What was her sin? Intellectual curiosity and insistence on her own agency. Because of Eve, men have to work for a living and women have to suffer the torment of the damned in childbirth. Raw power.īut they also do it with ideologies: The Biblical original sin of Eve, who dragged all men for eternity down into mortal sin, getting us all evicted from the Garden. ![]() We could be legally raped in marriage, sexually harassed with impunity, and a husband could have his wife locked up indefinitely on the recommendation of a doctor, who didn’t even have to examine the woman personally. Just in the last two centuries this meant we could not vote, serve on juries, own our own children, inherit, have professional careers, get formal education, get credit in our own names, own our own wages, terminate unwanted pregnancies. They very blatantly legislate control over our persons. How do men get away with this? Well, for starts, raw power. We must embrace these misogynist ideologies and become the agents for policing and schooling each other. We must not be allowed to name our oppression, and especially the modes of attack on our anatomy. We must use a language of dissociation that will prevent our sense of an embodied self. We must use language that erases our agency and ownership and pride in our bodies. We must embrace ideologies that dissociate us from our bodies and encourage us to live dissociated identities. We must be kept ignorant about our bodies and denied access to resources that enable our control of our anatomy. We must be forced into competition with other women at the expense of forming powerful alliances. We must learn to distrust and fear our mothers. We must be raised to be dependent on males and male approval. We must be owned, controlled, and-above all-kept from our power. In patriarchy, women’s bodies are an asset, a resource, the raw material out of which humans are made. The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-DiggersĮntr'acte or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped
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