Patriarchy is a Boot on the Neck
Patriarchy is like a man, having his boot on a woman's neck.
Feminism is a woman complaining about the boot.
Conservatives insist there wasn't a problem with the boot being on the neck until the woman started talking about it. If she would just be quiet about the boot, there wouldn't be a problem.
Male allies think there's a way to talk about the boot being on the neck that appeals to everyone and doesn't "alienate" those that would help remove the boot.
"Good Guys" insist that not all men wear boots.
Women with internalized misogyny insist they have a boot on their neck by choice and they love it! They insist something is wrong with women complaining about the boot.
The boot is never removed from the neck.
Every major religion claims to speak for God - But none of them speak from women
The god is male.
The prophets are male.
The rules are written by men - enforced by men, and used to control women.
Maiden name (fathers surname) 🧐
Married name (husbands surname) 🤷🏽♂️
Man made! Woman don’t make nothing?!!!
✨Mariam Al Astrulabi✨ Marie Curie✨ Ada Lovelace✨ Rosalind Franklin✨ Lise Meitner ✨ Nettie Stevens✨ Hedy Lamarr✨ Radia Perlman✨
If no "divinely inspired" religion has ever centered women, maybe it didn't come from something higher. Maybe it came from down here - from patriarchal cultures, passed off as divine law to justify their authority.
Because if truth is universal, it shouldn't be gendered. And if morality is divine, it shouldn't exclude half the species.
Half of the world are women, the other half are their ‘children’.☝️
Before these current crop of patriarchal religions took hold it was women who were at the centre of most tribal societies. Then the Abrahamic religions made woman (Eve) the source of ‘original sin’. Women who dared to continue practicing traditional medicine were deemed Witches in medieval Europe. From then on, for hundreds of years, men would find any excuse to have women burned alive at the stakes or sent to mental institutions. Future societies must bring women back into the central focus of their respective cultures to get back the balance we lost. We can back it up with science even. The process of procreation involves the XX (mother - egg) + XY ( father - sperm) chromosomes. That involves THREE X chromosomes & only ONE Y chromosome. It’s the female genes 🧬 that is THE prototype for the creation of new babies - male or female. It’s not rocket science!!! 🤷🏽♂️
We were all humans… when
Race disconnected us
Religion divided us
Politics separated us
Wealth classified us
Misogyny divorced us
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/sheela-na-gigs-irish-statues-women-exposing-themselves
The Na Gig meaning is the cycle of death and and the life that comes from it. It is part of nature..the turning of the cycles of nature. The seasons.
For Pagans it was all symbols.
Book: Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland - Jo Kerrigan O'Brien