"COME THEE OH MEN, DICTATE ME MY DESTINY"
Have you ever wondered why is it that women allow every Joe-Scmoe to dictate them what is the right way to behave and to look? An ancient left-over psyche perception from the times a life of a woman was completely in the hands of a man (be it her father who could throw an unwanted baby girl child into a river (India), command her mother to bind her feet to make her attractive and a sellable commodity (China) or to deprive her of any expression and defense (Islamic countries)), her husband who would place things on her to be carried like its still done in Iraq (info courtesy of a Marine), and her son who deny a claim that certain religions and mind states are more conductive to sexism and womben abuse than others but it is mostly because of a prevalent mind state that to see the truth and say it would render you: racist, nationalist, or any other than sexist, -st. Read "Unsafe New York: Part Thirteen."
The funny thing that is pretty much NOT ok to be any -ist today, besides a sexist. When you protest the sexism you are suddenly a racist, a nationalist and many other ists. Even women themselves seem to side with the abusers, so strong is the history of divestment from the self. I still remember a time when a man I considered most the important part of my life betrayed me. He did it at a reading group that was superbly important to me because of it being my first reading group. This was a group where my talent was acknowledged and where my inclinations hatched, it was led by a prominent womban and a writer, and the guy was invited by me (and to this there was much objection because apparently he had a reputation for being a troublemaker, and this woman could barely stomach him, but the eye of love is a blind one). In that group, after I have issued him an invitation with such a difficulty, he got up and loudly and clearly read that he is a "misogynist, and proud of it." The whole story he read was about bashing women, more women and more women. Why? I helped him as much as I could before, the lady kindly listened to his garbage, and he was living in an apartment with a womban older and self sufficient, who was kind to him and kept him largely out of good will and mercy. He lived off womben all his life, and now instead of gratitude he publically embrassed me in front of what could have been my group and my friends. And I, whose hand he held and whose mouth he kissed, was a woman...And then he looked me in the eye as if it was ok? And smiled? And sat down to chat with me? I was in love, and I still love him. I will never stop loving you, you know that, but this is not because you are a bad person. You and I are a sad but old story. But that day, he just stated that basically not only he hates me, but my entire kind! When one nation says that to another and attempts to implement measures to destroy the hated group, we call it GENOCIDE. And "a nation" consist of both men and women, but sexism and misogyny is not funny: it is highly profiled actions and propaganda of hatred, directed specifically towards a weaker, more dependent and innocent part of humanity. On a personal level, by the way, such targeted discrimination is called "scape goating". And why?
But I digress, back to man commanding woman's life. To repeat, in her youth, it is her father. Later, it is her husband. Later yet, it is her son who commands and orders her life. (In Japan, by the way, a woman dares not to lift her head; in India: a widow must throw herself into a funeral pyre. ALIVE) Not only Europe and Western countries are the most enlightened by now on affairs of gender relationships, they are the countries that have inherited the herritage of Greece, on which all we do and think today, is based. Logic is a child of philosophy, a major Greek pursuit. Like any science, it has rules. These rules command our thinking and behavior, but women are not only not taught logic or mathematics, on which philosophy eventually builds, they are made to dislike it through subtle suggestions such as: chicks are not good at math, women are better at humanitarian subjects, math women are not sexy, logic isn't fun...They (the women) are discouraged and this is done by making smart and talented women appear unlikable and to be avoided at all costs. Mostly this information is false, it is untrue but becomes a self fulfilling prophecy where women do come to believe themselves to be helpless and stupid. Since logic is not abolished because of some group not knowing it and therefore not being able to recognize it, men vastly continue to use it building up vast empires and subjecting a large number of people who are women and men as well. Your lack of knowledge will not undo the eddifice of knowledge only will make you weaker and vulnerable against those who use it. Women thus become easy victims of society. A way to control woman's behavior and to mold her in accordance to one's subjective standard is easy: apply a logical fallacy "Subjectivity".
A specific example of that fallacy in action would be woman's leg hair. A hairy woman is presented as a beast, a man, an anathema. A famous line is: oh my God you have leg hair, you are a guy. Where is the fallacy? Right here.
Homo Sapiens being an ANIMAL SPECIES consist of biological and gender specifics. "NATURAL: is BY DEFINITION whatever present in an original state without adjustments and changes made by humans or the entity. NATURALLY, a womban has leg hair. To check the truth of this statement, do not shave for some time and observe. You do not need to take testosterone, it grows by itself. Only no one dares to grow it out without an excuse of testosterone because most women have come to completely associate with the image of a woman imposed upon them. Also, without even this experiment, follow through logically the fact of your biology and understand that hair is not a gender thing, but a species thing. Now, if women did not have hair, neither the shaving creams nor razors would exist. But they do. A proof from reality. Furthermore, if a woman has hair on her legs at birth, it is natural. If she has a womb, she is a woman, a female of the species by definition. If she is a female of the species, yet has hair on her legs at birth, she is naturally hairy. Therefore, it is natural for a woman to have leg hair and does not render her "male." The catch is in improper associations. The attempt here is to present man's desired reality: helpless and hairless chichuahua for a human woman for reality proper. That idea to him is more real than the reality of a woman: he sees her AFTER the shaving, and therefore to him, by a logical fallacy of taking wished reality for a real reality the presence of hair on her body is a sign of non-reality. He uses that system of societal censure to present a normal woman as stupid, ugly -if she does not comply with his wishful thinking. The woman is also shamed for not being "natural" (read: the schizophrenic reality of a guy). So a woman shaves in quiet shame, blaming herself for having hair, because apparently a "REALY WOMAN" does not have it...
This is only one example of a wonderful patriarchal tool kit filled with: logical fallacies, improper analysis, fear and intimidation, coercion and violation of self will, dire hatred and simple lack of education, culture and patience, false analogies, contradictions.
To be continued...
PS A prevalent tendency to judge something instanteneously, as many could judge this article as "feminist" without giving their brains work to read it and to understand it, is yet another tool. Once thus judged, women will stand back in awe and fear of a male "authority" and shaking like leaves, mostly subconsciously, from soicetal condemnation will continue to comply.
YOU ARE SOCIETY, STUPID.
