The Roe versus Wade uprising based on the Alito draft received my attention. The idea for the overturning of this law, not surprisingly, goes back in historical time and belongs in the past. This essay is about male and female gender .
In Genesis, Adam was first created by God and then Eve followed, thus establishing male dominance. She was not only subordinate, but she was also cursed- referring to the pain of bearing children in sorrow - devaluing her even more. Further, Eves, tempting Adam to eat from the tree of knowledge represents a sexual temptation. Now ,females are sexual beings that plunge man into misery .Can man overcome his lust and sexual temptations—Delilah, Medea, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and Marilyn Monroe come to mind. Man can be at the mercy of his passions. On the other hand, below the surface, in his unconscious mind , man attempts to control women because he is anxious, helpless, fearful, jealous with distrust .As a consequence, these repressed dangers result in his hostility. Aggression becomes easily activated and expressed in so many different ways. That fear is primarily although not exclusively rooted in sex.Despite being sexually attracted to women,men are conflicted by fear of being kept in bondage by them.
Anthropology has provided us with information regarding primitive cultures. We know that in primitive tribes, the woman was surrounded by taboos during her sexual maturity development. For example: 1. Women of the Arunta tribe were magically able to influence the male genitals. If she sang to the blade of grass and then pointed it at a man ; he became ill and lost his genitals altogether. Women lured him to his doom. 2. In East African tribes, husband and wife cannot sleep together because her breath might awaken him. 3. If the woman of a South African tribe climbs over the leg of the sleeping man, he will be unable to run. Thus, the old wives tale of the general rule -sexual abstinence. No sex for five days prior to hunting ,warfare, fishing, sports 4. A fear of menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth-a man who touched a menstruating woman would die. Women are mysterious beings who communicate with spirits and have magic powers that could be used to hurt the male. He must therefore protect himself against her powers by keeping her subjugated. Let me repeat, keeping her subjugated 5. The Miri tribe did not permit the women to eat the flesh of the Tiger because they can become too strong. 6. The Watawala tribe keeps the art of making a fire secret from the women or the women could become their rulers 7. In the Middle Ages there was the cult of the virgin side-by-side with the burning witches. Thus, pure motherlyness completely divested of sexuality next to the cruel destruction of the sexually seductive woman 8. Females in a God-given natural state are not the equal of the male. Moebius, the cartoonist, stated that the female brain weighed less than the male one 9. There is current evidence that shows that men's brains shrink more in advanced ages compared to women. Some studies show that women have a larger corpus callosum than the man, suggesting that this may allow women to have more language functions in the non dominant right hemisphere . With stroke, studies show women tend to recover language faster. 10. Women use more of their brains than men in doing nearly every cognitive task, possibly mediated by their larger corpus callosum 11. In Salem, 78% of people accused, convicted of witchcraft were women and were hanged- because the devil overtook these women and their souls 12. More men died from Covid- 19 than females13. Women are destroying” masculinity” according to Tucker, The New York Times, May 1,2022. American men are in deep trouble. Modern life…. stressed and miserable . It’s …. a biological collapse of the species. If men are keeping women down, why are women doing so much better than men? Shouldn't women be helping men to be better? if you destroy men or complete the destruction of man….. Wow ! The power of women is scary and it’s becoming harder to compete with them 14. 1 in 4 women are victims of severe physical violence15. Women are gaining on males in the educational, economic, and social areas. !6. How many women are school shooters ? 17. Conservative Maureen Dowd in a May 8, 2022 article in the New York Times made the following points: A. Alito is returning to Puritan times B. Even Saudi Arabia allows abortions If a woman's physical or mental health is at risk C. Thomas was a pervy liar regarding Anita Hill and he helped open the door to dark money, along with helping gut the voting rights act D. Five unelected, unaccountable and relatively unknown political operatives are masquerading as impartial justices. They are interested in constructing a society that comports with their rigid, religiously driven worldview.
Is Tucker right that women are emasculating their man? Perhaps for males to regain their masculinity, it's important for them to obtain satisfaction and security(S&S). The following are standards for these types: 1. Man must be king of his castle, if he can afford it. 2. Females are his property and possession 3. His females must be dependent , obey, comply, give in,loyal, giving , and be subservient with limited education and intellectual qualities. 4. Contraception and abortion not permitted. 5. Homeschooling is required for censoring books materials ,interests and friendships 6. Voting by females is restricted-in my community, the CCR's allow one vote per household for the Board of Directors 7. Driver's licenses are to be restricted. 8. Church attendance required every Sunday, holidays etc.9. Exorcism’s are permitted 10.An automatic weapon present on every birthday.11. Corporal punishment for every derogatory remark 12. An allowance for food purchases.
Perhaps, part of a males resentment towards women is that she has a life creating power that men can admire, but this admiration fosters resentment toward capabilities that man does not possess. Yes, men can create religion, government, art, science that has an obvious masculine imprint . Man's resentment towards women is obvious when it comes to the children she produces. Do not provide her or her child medical insurance ,medicine, food , housing, preschool assistance etc. Just using median hourly earnings of both full and part-time workers, the male- female gender gap for the last 15 years has shown that women earned 84% of what men earned according to the Pew Research Center. Further, the gap between white and nonwhite women is even more; women earn less than men in nearly all occupations; women earn less than males in their same race and ethnicity at every level of degree attainment. The pandemic caused women's labor force participation back more than 30 years.
I interviewed Doc Shay-Sharon Shay Bintliff in "It Has Nothing to Do with Age." This Dr. began medical school at the University of Texas at Galveston in 1962. She was the only female in the medical program of 76 students. She was also a paddler and has completed the most competitions from Molokai to Owahu. In 1952, the first Outrigger canoe race began for man. It wasn't until October 14, 1979 that women were given permission by the male US Coast Guard to compete and enter that race.They were told that It's just too dangerous for women. And just yesterday I heard that Trump would have won the popular vote in 2016 against Hillary if votes in California were not counted. Counting California ,Hillary won by more than 2.9 million votes.
Discrimination against females goes back to recorded time. Our Constitution was created and ratified by white males. Females were finally allowed to vote, but 100 years ago. Yes, males fear women as they can easily tempt men based on testosterone and other conditions. Yes, many have been puss.. whipped by women since recorded time. Women are extremely competitive and are tremendous athletes. Not only that, many women are so verbally proficient. Unfortunately, man has created an ideology that perpetuates and maintains his power position and is clever enough to make this position acceptable to the weaker one. Man has concealed his struggle and feelings of being inferior. So man has to obscure this fact and places emphasis on a religious belief that causes women to adopt the same archaic beliefs. Yes man can and does fool some females, especially the evangelicals.
One time, in the days of old, women were the property of men. That's an historical fact. Just ask Thomas Jefferson about his relationship with Sally Hemmings ? He promised her what? Oh yeah, when they returned from France, he changed his mind. Rape is another example of discrimination. The woman wanted it. It was consensual. She dressed seductively and she was flirtatious. So what if I got her drunk. It didn't happen. Both Thomas and Kavanaug supported that idea. Their record speaks for itself. And these men should have power over women regarding sex? Unconscionable! The Supreme Court has too many undesirables.
A March 20, 2022 article appeared in the New York Times regarding a # MeToo movement. Some testimonials from Swedish women: 1. I was 17 and was raped by a Stockholm politician who is now a top candidate in the 2018 election 2. Sitting with colleagues in the dining room hall, one of them fixates his eyes on me and says, "I can really understand why men rape sometimes." The other colleagues(male) laugh." 3. After I left the court as a law clerk, one of the judges became my mentor. He was supportive, offered advice, and one day he came to the office and wanted me to pay him back with oral sex. 4. We were greeted on the first day of law school with the phrase: Here we educate Sweden's best lawyers and Sweden's most educated housewives. 5. When I did my court service, a now retired judge called me into his office the day before I was sitting in on the rape trial with him. He showed me photos of the three defendants and asked me, by whom I would rather be raped.
Yes, males exhibit power over others or whom they fear and/or those that they know they can bully. Endless exploitation; endless wars, endless income inequality, endlessly exploiting the earth, the seas and the climate while bringing us closer to nuclear war and AR 15 killers. Way to go guys .It’s fear and inadequacy that fuels hate, destruction and murder. God, you made a mistake. It should've been Eve and then Adam. George Eliot stated, "Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
Reference
Horney, Karen. Feminine Psychology.
Institute for Natural Resources. Cerebral Dominance The Left and Right Brain.
PS
Peter Abelard born in 1079 was a medieval French scholastic, philosopher ,leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician. He fell in love with the younger Heloise and wrote her beautiful passionate poems of love. Unfortunately, he was castrated by her uncle and became a monk. 600 years later, Josephine Bonaparte entombed them together in a cemetery in Paris. They had promised to remain "Forever One." Although they never met again, his famous love letters endures.
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