...About God is a Man...
For one, it's as obvious as the wart on my nose that's he's majorly into misogyny. (Which, by the way, is the Greek word for woman-hating.)
Allow me to demonstrate why.
One: you've heard of female infanticide, yes? Don't hear too much about male infanticide (not that I condone either, not at all). Two: barring a few communities, too few to count, that still follow the matriarchal/matrilineal system, most of the world lives by the patriarchal family structure. Who made that rule? Three: how many men do YOU know who've never had an orgasm?
Now for more of the messy physiological stuff.
Who gets to bleed to death every month, with cramps and depression and goodnessknowswhatelse? Who gets to walk around with a bowling ball in their bellies for 9 months? Who gets to birth babies (I imagine a good analogy for labour might be: threading a needle with an ear of corn)? And after that, who gets a good old episiotomy? Oh, ouchh!!!
Then there's the Big Oh. It's crazy the number of women who have never experienced one. Because, well...(insert your favourite man-bashing story here).
That whole women-as-nut-and-berry-gathering-nurturers thing is so old and tired (yawnnn). As working women, we don't need men for their economic support or their protection (!!!) any more, as they did in the Dark Ages, so marriage as an institution is redefinitivelydundant. For women anyway.
Men? They got it real good.
The older they get, the better they look. (I'm not going into what happens with women, but you can check several bloGGz ago for a rough idea.) They hit the Big Oh from zero to 3 seconds on a good day (that's a bad day for the woman). They get to be boyfriends, lovers, husbands and never have to worry about getting pregnant: "Condom? What condom? I HATE condoms!!!"
Truth is, if I'd been born male (and no, this isn't a subversive form of Penis Envy), I'd probably have been the worst kind of MaleChauvinistPig. I mean, what's not to like about being a man?!? You get to live in a male-dominated world, you get a personal female slave who cooks, cleans, has your babies, feeds them, changes nappies, grows them up, keeps house for you, does the supermarketing, looks decorative, and stays home mostly, while you go out and do man-type stuff.
Hell, I'm a woman, and I'd like a wife!!!
So then, what are men good for?
Well, I'm sure they're good for something, just can't think what it might be. I mean if a woman wants a baby, she can go to the sperm bank, choose what she wants and produce it. A man? Well a man needs a woman to grow his babies for him. And then birth them, take care of them and etc. and you know the rest of that story.
Seriously though, these are amazing times to be a woman. (I'm a woman, I should know.) I have met some amazing women, and not ONE of them was a man. There's a bunch of evidence to suggest that things are finally coming full circle, that women are finally waking up to their power and taking it back. Gimme gimme. Yes, we're hitting critical mass. I'm just bloodthirsty, so I hope it will be a big, noisy, radical revolution. It's been a long time coming.
I remember reading Germaine Greer and Simone de B in my 20's. More recently, the Da Vinci Code and The Dissonant Daughter. All good reads that'll blow the cobwebs away, vive la Holy Grail. And they're all talking the same truths... before there was God, there were Goddesses. The concept of Shakti, of the Divine Feminine, of the Power of Womanhood is as old as civilization, possibly older. It was threatening to the Second Sex, then males. So it was subverted, by guess who. Fascinating stuff; true stuff. Looks like today's Second Sex, the females, are moving to seize their power back again. About time, don't you think?
So. About God is a Man. You know why? Simply because the Goddesses were all away on maternity leave and he was asked to stand in because he was the only one NOT pregnant at the time. Well, now that the kids have all grown up and gone away, roll over, MrGod!
RandomMusing: I'm thinking, I will probably get tossed off a cliff as a sacrifice if any men read this. I'm also thinking, good thing they only sacrifice virgins.