Misogyny in Religion
I thought it was about time I reasserted my hatred for the misogyny that stems from the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) to pervade our culture.
The general scientific view is that genders are equal when it comes to intelligence. The highest recorded IQ was a woman – “Marilyn vos Savant is known as the person with the highest IQ ever recorded and has often been referred to as “the smartest person in the world.”
Due to the impact of hormones (testosterone in particular) males tend to be bigger, more muscular and stronger. In stone-age times this made them better at hunting and fighting off predators (though I wouldn’t mind betting there are a lot of women who would do a lot better at that than a lot of males). This lead to a division of labour and a male dominance.
Testosterone also leads to more aggressive behaviour. Males are generally more violent.
In the present day world this strength and aggression counts for nothing. We have technology to do the work. There is nothing women can’t do as good, or better, than men.
The problem lies with the hangover from stone-age culture. The three Abrahamic religions came out of a small region of the Middle East. They started up in Patriarchal nomadic Arab culture where women were highly controlled chattels, where chastity was a prerequisite and the culture was highly sexually repressive.
In the contemporary cultures women are still highly repressed because of this.
Christianity
Christianity underwent the enlightenment and lost its chokehold on culture. Along with science we found that women became freer. The suffragettes and women’s movements, along with reduced religious influence, have enabled women to strive for equality. They no longer are forced to wear headscarves and hide their natural form behind heavy robes. They now have the vote, take part in business and government. Technically they are equals though the reality is still far from that. But we are heading in the right direction (even if Christian cults still make women second-class and try to put them back in their place as chattels).
Judaism
Orthodox Jews still hold their women as second-class citizens. Long skirts, high necklines, covered arms and covered hair, separation in the synagogue, secondary roles – subservient to their men – though they are allowed professions.
Islam
Islam is the current worst offender when it comes to women’s rights – such horrors as genital mutilation, forced child marriage, depriving of education, depriving of professions, a strict dress code of Burqas and Niqabs so that women are either kept out of sight behind high walls (as in Oman) or shrouded in long robes and face coverings. They are meant to be obedient and there are draconian punishments for adultery (stoning to death) or breaking the dress code (whipping). It really is something out of the Stone Age.
The most obscene aspect of this barbaric sexually repressed patriarchy is that this Arab cult promises a heaven in which the men will lounge around being waited on by maidens with unlimited sex with virgins. Not sure where this unlimited supply of virgins is coming from, what’s in it for the women? (a paradise where they have an unlimited supply of well-endowed studs perhaps?) Or what the purpose of all that actually is?
This is the kind of obscene nutcase ideas being touted:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1273890658097467392
The Islamic purpose of life is endless sex with virgins?? Not exactly metaphysical.
The truth of the matter is that all three religions stem from the same heavy-handed patriarchal Arab society and share the same misogyny. In those primitive war-like nomadic cultures women were possessions, kept out of sight and traded for political/financial gain. The culture of those warring tribes is prevalent in the ‘holy’ books they base their prejudices on.
In the modern world women find it hard to gain their rightful equal place. Christianity might be presently better but is still far from perfect. Islam is currently way behind and still wishes to exist back a thousand five hundred years in the past.
In my opinion it’s about time that the world came together to enforce women’s rights as being equal to that of men!
