The Manitoba Women’s Newspaper

VOL. II NO. IV MAY 17, 1982

Jolumma Stuckey 'And God 5700 BC. Archaeologists have In this Mesopotamian material done; at this stage, if the Gddess is women knead their dough to created man in his own image...,' begun to uncover a large town -- primarily poetry -- we find present at all, she is there as the make cades to the queen of so says the King James Version there where they have found that the Goddess was still -- or inanimate matter of chaos. Hebrew heaven ...' (KJV. Ch. 7, v. 18) of the Hebrew Bible (Gen. Ch. 1, many female figurines similar had recently been -- central to Genesis 1:1 represents this last And later in the same book we v.26). In the Judeao-Christian to the 'Venus' of Willendorf. Sumerian worship. Further the stage, for the Hebrew God creates read: everything by speaking it into being. tradition, God the Father placed What is more interesting is that, myths preserved in these poems 'Then all the men which knew human beings in the Garden of along with the statues, they help us interpret artifacts such that their wives had burned Eden to live totally protected incense unto other gods, and all fives, until Eve, prompted by the the women that stood by, a serpent, ate the forbidden fruit great multitude, ... answered and Adam followed suit. The Great Goddess, Jeremiah, saying, "As for the Angrily, G~ and Father expelled word that: thou hast spoken his erring children from Eden until us in the name of the Lord, and sent them forth to fend for we will not hearken unto thee. themselves. As part of her But we will certainly do punishment, Eve was cursed to whatsoever thing goeth forth desire Adam and be subordinate out of our own mouth, to burn to him. incense unto the queen of In this most influential of stories, heaven, and to pour out drink God is male and decidedly of. patriarchal. What the story is ferings unto her, as we have trying to affirm is a new order -- done, we, and our fathers, our a male-dominated, patriarchal kings, and our princes, in the society watched over by a male cities of Judah.. and...in-the god. What this story also tells streets of Jerusalem: for then us, however, is that things had had we plenty of victuals, and hot.always.been that way. were well, and saw no evil. For centuries, indeed, before the But since we left off to bum Adam and Eve story became a incense to the queen of heaven, programming text for Jews (and, and to pour out drink offerings later, Christians), peoples all unto her, we have wanted all over Europe and the Near East, things, and have been even in the 'Bible Lands' consumed by the sword and by themselves, had worshipped as the famine. And when we supreme not a male god but a burned incense to the queen of goddess -- the Great Goddess, heaven, and poured drink the 'Queen of Heaven'. offerings unto her, did we make Her origins go back to the dim her cakes to worship her, and beginnings of human time, at pour out drink offerings unto least to the earliest artists and Queen of Heaven her, without our men?"' (K.J.V., probably farther. In late Ch.44, w. 15-19) Paleolithic times (30,000 BC to Certainly, all, through the period about 10,000 BC), one of the found evidence of a highly as the Catal Huyuk finds and Indeed, the Hebrew Bible is, of prophecy in Israel, many most prevalent and widespread developed religion. Central to the 'Venus' of Willendorf. perhaps, the most powerful Hebrews worshipped the human artifacts was a female that religion seems to have been These Mesopotamian record we have of the conflict Goddess more or less image, usually fat, often the worship of the Great myths, preserved in male- between peoples who consistently. And archaeology pregnant, certainly all woman. Goddess, who, at the later levels oriented poems (post-3000 BC), worshipped God the Father and supports this statement for, No one today can say for certain at least, appears to have been generally record successful at- peoples who were devoted to the throughout the 'Bible Lands', what she represented. Many worshipped in triad -- as a young tempts to demote the Goddess Great Goddess. There is little innumerable female figurines of scholars call her images 'Venus' gift, as a mature woman giving from her central position. doubt that, when the Hebrews in familiar shape have occurred in figures and dismiss them as birth and as a representative of Because of her power, her over- throw was extremely violent, the Bible entered the'' Promised sites of varying dates and well fertility-cult objects. Perhaps death. That the Goddess Land of Canaan, they found, into Biblical times. represented life and death is the result of vicious conflict bet- they were. But ! think they are ween ~ Goddess (and her sup- already there, a Goddess Who was the Great Goddess, the earliest representations of powerfully demonstrated by the worshipping culture which the 'Queen of Heaven'? Her most evocative of artifacts found porters) and her young male the Great Goddess. descendants. Joseph Campbell, immediately presented an names arc legion -- Nammu and The people who made that -- breasts open at the nipples, enormous threat. So, as the Inanna in Sumer, Tiamat in in l~s book Masks of the Gods: beautiful little statue found in out of which protruded the claw, Bible tells us, the Hebrews set Akkad, Astarte in Assyria, beak, or jaw of a predatory bird Occidental Mythology, says Austria were probably ancestral that origin myths go through out to conquer the Canaanites Asherah and Anath in the 'Bible to peoples who, later, continued or animal -pretty convincing and eliminate their religion. Town Lands', Isis and Hathor in evidence that the people of four stages. At the first stage, the making of 'Goddess' the Goddess creates all things after town fell to the invaders, Egypt, Kuan Yin in China, statutes. Throughout Europe and Catal Huyuk saw the Goddess who then massacred all the Morgan le Fay and Maeve as controlling life and death. from herself alone. The next the Near East, archaeologists stage sees creation by an interm- inhabitants -- men, women and among the Celts, Coatlicue have found numerous statues Up until now, we have been ingled male-female pair children. But still, they were among the Azetcs, Eurynome which bear similar features to discussing the period called unable to suppress Goddess and Aphrodite in Ancient (sometimes the female god has those of the 'Venus' of 'Pre-history', before the invention worship. The Bible records, Greece, Jezanna in Zimbabwe, first created the male as her Willendorf. Such statues, of writing, which occurred about again and again, the 'whoring' of Pele in Hawaii, Hepa among spouse). The third stage particularly Neolithic ones, 3000 BC in Sumer (the the people of Israel after 'foreign the Hittites, continued page 4 presents a male deity who abound in the 'Bible Lands, and Sumerians attributed the gods' and through the Prophets from many periods. invention to a goddess and the separates the ancestral pair one we read of the Isralites 'whoring' One of the most interesting f'LrSt examples come from one from the other, and then either after the gods of Canaan. In the Neolitic sites is at Catal Huyuk in of her temples). Now we have he rapes the Goddess or he kills Book of Jeremiah, for instance, Anatolia, Turkey. Its dates are written evidence of the Great both and out of the body of the we read: 'The children gather around 6.500 BC to around Goddess, evidence produced Goddess he makes everything. wood, and the fathers kindle the almost certainly mainly by men. At the final stage, a male deity fire, and the :reates everything by his word. 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Resources for Feminist Washington's finest m A United Bulletins Research/Documentation sur la States federal court has ruled Nelligrams Recherche Feministe have that no city, regardless of size, is accepted a proposal to publish required to provide its citizens an issue on lesbian research, Coming up on June 7th - 11th. with police protection. titled to protection of the teaching and writing in Canada. the Women's Inter-Church Letters The ruling came in a snit against Diefenbaker Canadian Bill of Council has called a national at The issue will appear March the Washington police Rights. Borowski would allow Lakehead University, Thunder 1983, all materials should be department, brought by three no abortions under any cir- Bay, to "explore the concept of sent in by July 1, 1982. The women who were brutally raped cumstances -- not even in sisterhood", "to educate Manuscripts should range fn Editor, HERizons Many years ago and beaten for 14 hours, after cases of rape or incest. ourselves in women's experience length from 3 to 10 typed when was studying at university I two men broke into their home. Women, though, will con- generally ~ nonCanadian, pages. Tentative outline: 1. was loaned a wonderful book, Initially, two of the women hid tinue to have unplanned un- immigrant Canadian, native Lesbian Research and Writing from the attackers and called the wanted and unsupportable Canadian and multi-generational Wen of Loneliness. I had grown in Canada; 2. up in a small relatively police twice -- but both calls were pregnancies, and, in their Canadian. The Institution of Compulsory The event is open to all women. conservative Manitoba town ignored. A DC court agreed with desperation, seek ways to ter- Heterosexuality; 3. where I remember no mention o the facts of the case, but minate them. Canadian Contemporary Lesbian Life. homosexuality or lesbianism No dismissed the women's suit on women will again be driven in- Since many women feel On Saturday, June 12th an anti- details of the discussions o| the the grounds that the government to back street abortions, and nuclear rally & demonstration in unable to participate for fear of book come back to me but my has "no general duty" to provide possibly be maimed or die as a Winnipeg is being held. More recriminations in their jobs or class mates must have been police protection. result. The Canadian Abor- than 100,000 people are personal lives, anonymity is accepting of the philosophy of the From Uniter (RNR/CUP) tion Rights Action League, of expected to come together in assured to all those women book because from that day to which I am an honorary direc- New York City to demonstrate who request it. RFR/DRF, Dept. this I have not, in general, been tor, plans to take legal action support for the goals of the of Sociology, OISE, 252 Bloor critical of homosexuality. Heartfelt Terror -- In the last few to counter Joe Borowski's Second Special Session on Street West, Toronto, Ont. MSS I am in my seventies now and years about 70 girls and young threat to turn back the clock. Disarmament (United Nations). women have been forced through IV6 (416) 923-6641, Ext. 556. over the years have gradually Your interest, participation Contingents from Japan, Europe Bible drills, terror, fatigue, isolation and Canada will be present. At become a feminist. and financial support can and boredom at the Bethesda Home make the difference. You can the same time, in cities and Recently that has led me to an for Girls, a fundamentalist Baptist Canadian Association of stop Joe Borowski from turn- towns throughout the world, local Social Workers Annual Con- interest in The Women's Building. home in Hattiesburg, MS. The demonstrations will be held. Here It is one of the few meeting places ing back the clock. Will yon? ference -- Eve. June 16, June director claims the treatment is in Winnipeg the rally, parade and in Winnipeg where lesbians need spiritual "heartwashing" to save girls Yours sincerely, Margaret concert are scheduled to begin at 17 & 18, 1983. Theme: Work- Laurence. ing in the Human Services -- not fear admitting they are from self-destruction. 12 noon, to be held on the lesbians, at least as a supporter of The young women are mostly unwed Legislative grounds sponsored by Challenges in the 80's. For The Building, I hope that is true. mothers and runaways. the Winnipeg Co-ordinating Registration information The long ann of the patriarchy Committee on Disarmament. write to: M.A.S.W., 83 I am writing this letter to the colonized peru, centre of the Local and rural organizations Rutgers Bay, Winnipeg, Manitoba Women's Newspaper in Inca empire, and local women concerned with peace and reaction to Isabel Andrews' article Manitoba R3T 3C9, Atten- The Russian feminists' descrip- who heard the "confessions" of justice, women's groups, church tion: K. Clare Homophobia. tion of abortion clinics as other women were accused of congregations, trade unions, And I have a question: how can witchcraft and idolatry. They families and individuals are "mince-meat machines" is also Continuing Education at the people like me help lesbians to were nevertheless tolerated if invited to participate. Perhaps feel more accepted by society at true in Poland. Abortion has banner making parties and small University of Winnipeg been used as a political weapon they translated other women's presents a lecture series on large? confessions to the priest. group activities prior to June 12 Margaret Robson between the church and the can be organized. Let us THE LAW: Business; state with complete disregard Translators were called join.together in celebration of the Criminal; Landlord/Tenant; for women's freedom. The hermanas mayores (older possibility of a world without war, Labour; Domestic. For Church opposes abortion, while sisters), and were inclined to and in awareness of the need for Registration Form write to the state does not allow any make liberal translations that voicing our opposition to the arms 515 Portage Avenue, Win- Hello: other forms of birth control, omitted "sins" not traditionally race. For more information, or to nipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9. Just saw my first (the forcing women to go through regarded as sinful. become involved in the June 12 Match) issue of HERizons, and Religions Air waves coming at planning group, contact Paul at an endless series of abortions. National Film Board NEWS couldn't resist dropping you a you -- pressure on the CRTC to 284-7679 or Doreen at 5824248. note, along with my subscrip- RELEASE: The June 12th The Roman Catholic Church's allow religious broadcasting Peace and Disarmament March/ tion form, to say how tremen- "congregation for the doctrine of networks is being brought to Rally Committee presents the dously impressed I am. The faith" confirmed in an official bear by a group of quality of the writing, design, NFB production If You Love this declaration that Freemasons, Conservative MP's. 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"'She was very w/se, and strong.., she taught me all I needed to (WINNIPEG) The University of Manitoba Women's Studies Department has found that know about being a man. When I was young, it was she who brought there is a shortage of women professors, a lack of women students in me up, and she who provided the incentive that made me seek an male-dominated faculties, an absence of women's support networks and education. Then she told me to write everything down that she was sexism in textbooks and in classroom discussions. telling me, because she said that my generation didn't remember An economics student feels that women lack the close link with male things. We had to have a paper or a book in our faces she said, in professors that men have because they often shy in approaching them or order for us to remember. The old people could remember but us, may fear gossip. She added that it is important to know a professor well .. well, I better write things down': before they will write reference letters for students and~ that male professors are reluctant to get to know female students for the same reasons. Tommy is a teacher, and a Women reaped the results and An engineering graduate however, defends the Engineering Department, musician, a poet and a in the process grew steadily saying there is no sexism in the department, but added that there are no traditionalist, and as he strummed stronger and more women professors in the faculty. on his guitar and hummed a tune understanding. The Sexism often permeates the walls of the classroom as well as was cited now and then in the little kitchen, responsibilities had not changed in the example of a marketing graduate who refused to tell an interviewer along with four others, he talked from the Hudson's Bay Company if she intended to marry and was about his grandmother and he and were carried Out silently consequently refused the job. remembered her. and inconspicuously. If medicine Tommy's grandmother was one of men went underground, then the many old women that people medicine women went further. didn't know too much about. They They are emerging now, but it is were medicine people who had the men who have the highest Marriage license fee to aid battered (CALIFORNIA) learned and practi~xi their ways profiles. It is the women who are The California legislature is considering a move which would for lifetime. the stronger. see the fee for marriage licenses increased an extra five When she died, she was one Men talk about the wisdom, dollars which would go to fund shelters for battered wives. hundred and ten years old. The knowledge, strength and book of poetry that Tommy has The increase has already been approved by a senate written was 110 pages, and understanding. Women live the committee and could raise a possible one million dollars for through his poetry, he imparts wisdom, knowledge, strength the shelters. some of the wisdom passed on to and understanding. him by his grandmother. The book Perhaps testimony to tt~e will be published this fall, strength and wisdom of native hopefully. It will be called women can be found in the Thalidomide still available "Reflections", and published by language.., there is no he or Hurtigs of Canada. she, him or her.., his or hers .. (AFRICA) Tommy's old grandmother was an gendered language doesn't The drug responsible for thousands of deformed babies h Europe astounding and amazing exist. Also, strong testimony to and North America in the 1960's is still available in Africa. individual. Tommy says he A representative of the African Students Association says the remembers during ceremonies, the credibility in spiritual that blue flumes would appear to evolution of native women, is the manufacturers of thalidomide want to dispose of their drug and come from her hands like a fact that the sacred pipe was that Africans are used as guinea pigs to test other products flaming halo following the outlines given to : the Sioux Nation by a before they are marketed in North America. of her fingers. He remembers woman.~ Her name was Buffalo Before a new product is introduced into North America it has eagles being dose to this old Calf Woman. "Daughters of been tested on the African market for at least five years, he said, woman ... and he remembers how Copper Woman", a recent book citing intrauterine devices as examples of medical devices tested kind and gentle she was. She by Anne Cameron is a telling on African women. prayed a lot.., and sang old songs story about the wisdom and "Steroid-containing ointments are producing blotching on African and taught Tommy... strength of native women of the women. They end up looking like zebras or beards," he said. oh how she taught Tommy... about the old ways.., about West Coast, about their honesty ... kindness ... leadership qualities and their respect; about the life and plane in knowledge of themselves. which we are living which she My deceased husband Pornography linked with violence called "The Shadow World." The respected no one as much as he next world she told him, was the respected his grandmother. He (WISCONSIN) real world where everyone and used to get very angry about A recent University Of Wisconsin student found that likely to everything was alive with a people who boasted about their inflict pain upon women in an experiment after they had been vibrance that we can't even begin native heritage and spirituality. exposed to pornography. to imagine. "You know Bernelda," he'd say, Her analogy of the two worlds was Women and men were paired in different combinations for the of human beings and their shows. "If you know about that way, you experiment and one member of the pair was exposed to Throughout the colonization of the don't have to go around talking it pornography before the experiment, which involved telling native peoples of the americas, it and destroyed that they were up, you live it .. like Kookum." members of each group to administer shocks to" each other. was the women who retained the left with little more than the will And his Kookum was kind and The only increase in the participant's enthusiasm for " " shocks strength of the nations. The men to survive. It became necessary generous ... she was known for were the men who were exposed to pornography who were thrown into an utter state of for the women to take over... her strength and humility. were )aired with women. confusion; their resources and raise the families ... keep them Kookum traveled to the "next Similar experiments are being done at the University Manitoba. abilities to provide for their together ... and at the same world" two years ago but she families was so totally lives on in some of her undermined, exploited time to tolerate and endure the results of male chauvinism. The grandchildren and in one of her chauvinism was the logical daughters ... and through them, result of European influence the teachings of Kookum Security Chief says assault victim and the shattering changes that continue ... they live in me too. came to native civilization.., t There are still Kookums "'looking for trouble" making the men the most around.., and there are still damaged victims of coloniza-. grandsons and granddaughters OTTAWA) tion. who listen. The chief of security at Carleton University said that a woman who was indecently assaulted on campus last month was" "looking for trouble." Two men threw the student to the ground and some of her clothing but were scared off by her screams. ... "'Women have been divided from each other "In the first picture writings, statues,, "'i found god in myself "She was under the influence and in the company of She was by pseudo-identifwotion with groupings which and paintings there is the moon -- are androcentric and male dominated. Among & i loved her/i loved her fiercely'" looking for trouble. And if you do that, you're going find it." the Ntozake Shange these are the various religions whose ideologies mother -- Musician Goddess in the chief said. degrade and mystify women to such an extend full flower of Her glory. "" that even the fact of this degradation is not Sophie Drinker, 1948 Although there have been incidents of women being the tunnels percieved by its victims.'" Mary Daly in past years, Rodgers, who has been with security over 15 years, said that he was unaware of any problems in the ttmnel "She is ever. She is all, She is us.'" AMARGI - Sumerians for Return to Charlene 5pretuak the mother; freedom. HERizons -- May 17, 1982 -- Page 4

"'The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince The Great Goddess, the Queen And this thought brings us back them that the great Spirit of the Universe of Heaven from page 1 to the Hebrew bible and the is in no way responsible for any of these Mayuel among the Maya, Karl in Adam and Eve story. Today we Scandalo absurdities. °" Elizabeth Cady Stanton India, Venus and Magna Mater in are taught to read the tale as a Rome, Atira among the American myth of female evil and betrayal "'You are the devil's gateway ... Plains Indians, Freyja in Norway, -- Eve lost Eden for us forever. in the Vatican How easily you destroyed roman, the lshtar in Babylon, the Morrigan in But is this reading valid? Eve's image of God. Because of the death Ireland, Amaterasu in Japan, the name means 'Mother of all living', which you brought upon us, even the an epithet of the Great Goddess. Son of God had to die." Tertullian Virgin Mary among Christians, the Shekhina in Judaism; her The serpent, usual companion of names go on and on. the Goddess in her Garden of "'All witchcraft comes from carnal In her earliest possible form, as Delights, should make us pause. lust, which in women is unsatiable. "" Perhaps this most influential of all Malleus Moleficacum Paleolithic 'Venus', she was clearly a Goddess of fertility as the mythic stories in the Hebrew "I believe.., that in the rejection, or well as (perhaps of life and Bible is a male version of transcending, of the scapegoat principle death), one and indivisible, as Goddess tale? Should we add the lies the greatest moral challenge for was the creator Goddess of the name 'Eve' to our list of Her modern man (sic). "" Thomas S. Szasz earliest stage of myth, 'Mother of names? stance, prelates may all the Gods', 'Mother of all living'. Whatever the case, one fact is inexpensively hire the services "'Her is my daughter; she is a virgin; I Later on, her worshippers, sure - the Goddess was of the "Oblates of the Sacred will give her to you. Possess her, do probably both male and female, everywhere, the all cultures even, Heart": an order formed what you please with her, but do not I I think, in altered form in the commit such an infamy against this i began to separate one of her exclusively to live-in, six days a man." various functions from the other - Adam and Eve story. What is week; cooking and cleaning for Judges 19:24 "Our western culture motherhood and fertility, sexuality more, despite JudaeoChristian the clergy. with its beautiful Judea-Christian and love and death. By the time attempts to discriminate Her, she Recently, a nexy role for women ethic ... persisted until, in the Middle in service to the church has alone among the cultures of the of Catal Huyuk, for instance, the earth ... has brought the technology of division seems to have begun Ages, the Church had to bow to been revealed. The "Lay killing and destruction much further with the three Goddesses, one popular feeling and reinstate a Christian Virgins of Social than any culture on the earth ever young and sexy, one mature and female principle in Christianity. Action", brainchild of Belgium's dreamed, of doing before. "" George Who is the Virgin Mary but the Abhe Jean Roussei, have Wald fertile and likely a third concerned with death and represented as a Great Goddess, the 'Queen of warranted media attention. Like vulture. So, by 3000 BC in Heaven' in fact? Even today She some self-styled Hugh Hefner, "'You are a Witch by saying aloud, "7 Sumer, there were three main is with us, still exerting Her Roussel, age 72, has am a Witch': three limes, and thinking Goddesses -Ninhursaga, the power. It is no coincidence that maintained nine "Eau about that. You are a Witch by being Mother Goddess; Ereshkigal, the feminism (Goddess worship in Vive" (Living Water) restaurants female, untamed, angry, joyous and political form) and the ecology on five continents since the immortal. "" Goddess of the underworld; and New York Covens "They speak her younger twin sister, Inanna, movement (Goddess worship in 1950's. He employs together of the threat they have the Goddess of love and scientific form) grew up together. approximately 140 uneducated constituted towards authority, they tell sexuality. For the Great Goddess, the "girls" recruited from the third how they were burned on the pyres to Here, clearly, is the origin of the Queen of Heaven, is at the same by Marnie Pastdek Brigitte world. These "Lay Virgin" prevent them from assembling in time Mother Nature and the future. "" Monique Wittig Madonna/Whore dichotomy that Sutherland The Vatican, waitresses are known for their has so influenced modern Female Principle, and She is headquarters of the largest bright, colorful dres~s and Western Culture. alive, powerful, essential. church in Christendom, still penchant for singing religions "'If a woman ignores these wrongs, It is to this division of the Great We ignore Her at our peril. thrives as the : world's smallest chants, while serving fine then woman as a sex continue to suf- Cxxidess into her various aspects (reprinted from Canadian Woman city-state and as its oldest French cuisine and wines. fer them; then is no help for any of that we can trace the division Of Studies) "'Historical Christianity pofitical institution. Amidst these religious charms, us -- let us be dumb & die." has fallen into the error that To this day, the Home of the any distinguished ecclesiastical Elizabeth. Barrett Browning women against each other, just as, in her violent overthrow, we corrupts all attempts to papacy maintains its supremacy or foreign diplomat could dine, "'Take the snake, the fruit tree and can find the origin of the sex- communicate religion . .. It has as the richest multi-national secure in his privacy, during a the woman from the tableau, and we class system. In male-dominated dwelt, it dwells, with noxious corporation on earth. night on the town. In more ways have no fall, nor frowning Judge, no worlds the Goddess has, in the exaggeration about the person of Not an Equal Opportunity than is obvious… inferno, no everlasting punishment -- Jesus. "' Ralph Waldo Emerson Employer, this tiny burg in the The Abbe and his ministry have hence no need of a Savior. Thus the past, usually had a place -- "',4 transvaluation of values can heart of Rome boasts of 3,000 had some adverse fortune lately. bottom falls out of the whole Chris- subordinate, to be sure, and tian theology. Then is the reason why powerless -- and women have only be accomplished when there people in the employ of the Roussel is being investigated by in all the Biblical researches and followed suit. is a tension of new needs, and a Roman Curia (that old-boy the authorities for tax evasion, higher criticisms, the scholars never l new set of ~ needy people who network of elderly men enjoying exploitation of minors, and touch the position of women. "" Elizabeth Cady Stanton feel all old values as painful ~ the status of Cardinal). Less infractions of the labour code. A although they are not ! conscious than 400 of these employees few of the "Lay Virgins" have run of what is wrong. "" Friedrich are women, the majority of away, not of sufficient faith to Nietzsche "i will multiply your whom are nuns. endure the "training", consisting pains in childbearing, you shall Sister Pasqualina, a singularly of two years of slave labour give birth to your children in pain. high-profile nun, was a relieved only by fervent prayer. Your yearning shall be for your formidable presence during the Duties for these "faithful" also husband, yet he will it over you." reign of the authoritarian Plus include dancing naked for "Eau Genesis 3:16 XII. With an iron fist, she Vive's" distinguished guests. purportedly ruled the papal - The investigation by authorities apaMments and staff; screening currently underway has brought all visitors, including the Pope's to particular attention Rome's personal physician. Yet, Sister "Eau Vive" outlet on the Via Pasqualina was an exception to Monterone. Long a favourite the usual role of women in the watering hole of ecclesiatical Vatican who~lighten the personnel, the restaurant on the domestic burdens of the flesh for Via Monterone has a back room many a cardinal. For in- where the "Lay Virgins" were forced to dance naked to a liturgical beat for their cassockclad clientelle. Ostensably, they were told, this display of devotional action, flaunting their virginity before men, served to purge their UNISEX HAIRSTYUNG 1861 GRANT & KENASTON minds of evil. The Abbe is presently facing possible KENASTON MALL excommunication. Perm Special May 11th - 22nd As a franchise of Vacation Quest Inc. "'Wives, submit yourselves unto your. we can offer you luxurious husbands.., for the husband is the head of the Regular 52.50$ wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church. Now $37.50 accomodations in Hawaii, Mexico, '" Florida, Colorado, Bahamas & Texas Ephesians 5:23-24 Hours at a cost that Is affordable. 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Wild means their essential power. certain promises to women that and religious, is fond of naming occupation is to spin) Daly sees "living in a state of nature; Their chance is, as united the exploit and quiet women's women as "biologically this as a rich and cosmic verb; inhabiting natural haunts; not world over, to eliminate the deepest fears. These fears are conservative". as our foremothers, we must tamed or domesticated; growing necrophile attitudes and practices that male violence is Women as a class adhere spin tapestries of genesis and or produced without the aid and of patriarchy, by getting together uncontrollable and rather strictly to the traditions demise; as we spin we break care of man; not subjected to to rend the social fabric of unpredictable. Dependent upon and values of their social the credibility of contrived restraint or regulation." It also established political and and subservient to men, context. Women as a class are boundaries -- false divisions of means exceeding normal or socioeconomic regimes. women are always subject to dull conformists, the orthodox "fields" of knowledge and splits conventional bounds in thought, Gyn/Ecology, and Daly's this violence. The Right believers, the obedient follows between mind and heart. design, conception, execution, courageous example cannot fail promises restraints on male the disciples of unwavering We then begin to truly define or nature; extravagant, fantastic, to inspire the feminist, the woman aggression, simplifying survival faith. To waver, whatever the female for ourselves, visionary. searching for truth and meaning. for women -- making the world creed of their men, is discovering our deep sources, "Wild" means great in extent, Taking the journey, getting past habitable. tantement to rebellion; it is native resiliency, springing into size, quantity, intensity; extreme, the horror, mobilizing the anger, The Right offers a simple, dangerous. life, speech, action. As we prodigous. Wild is the name of women have, in this indispensible fixed, pre-determined social, Women decline, believing that revolt, reconsider, we commit the Self in women. In the tamed text, a foothold, an articulation, a biological, sexual order. if only they had been perfect deicide and find our own state, women are domesticated, network of support, a veritable Women are brought up to wife, mother or whore, they divinity. No longer allying dedicated to the cult of male- light at the end of the tunnel, truly maintain a husband's home would not have come to hate ourselves we break with class divinity, seduced into disloyalty a visionary impetus, a relief, a and to believe women without life so much, to find it so and racial identification. Freed, to Self, into false loyalties that release, a source of joy and hope men are homeless. Ingrained strangely difficult and empty, we become "strange", haggard; fragment, leading further and for the future of the world. with a deep fear of themselves so confused and that is we are the hags who so further from the self. The call of homelessness -- at the mercy despairing. Women die, frightened the politically the wild is to dispossess of the elements and strange mourning not the loss of their powerful, personally impotent ourselves, and invent, create men, the Right claims to own lives, but their own patriarchs. We were burned (9 Hagocracy. Rejecting false protect the home and women's inexcusable inability to achieve million) at the stake -- polarization, hags do not accept safety within it. For women, the perfection as men define it for conveniently erased from the false inclusiorL among the "When you go to church where 2 men them. stand behind the communion table, and world is dangerous. The Right annals of the Renaissance -- to fathers and sons, and are not i0 men serve communion & another acknowledges the reality of Survival is promised in purge the body of Christ from polarized against other women man stands at the lectern & reads danger ~ manipulates female conformity and nowhere else. evil ostensibly. on the basis of ethnic, national, scripture, & another man stands up and fear. It promises that an Woman must blend into her We become the Hags/Harpies/ class, religions and other male preaches, and 3 more men stand in the environment, never calling Furies/Crones formerly reviled aisles handing out bulletins, you hear a obedient woman shall be defined differences. fairly loud state,men, about the nature of protected from harm. attention to the qualities that and reduced through the Bonding of women is the the church. '" A woman is loved for fulflling distinguish her, because to do patriarchal devices of their ultimate state of enmity in Rev. Harold Dowler, Pastor University her female functions; so would be to attract deadly institutions; body language, relation to the War State of Christian Church, Texas obedience is an expression of attention. silences and deceptions of patriarchy, it is the radical Accounts of rape, wife beating, love and so are sexual media, grammar, education, withdrawal of energy from the "'Basic to the position of radical submission and child bearing. forced childbearing, medical professions, their technology, death march of males. feminism is the concept that biology In return, men are expected to butchering, sex motivated oppressive and confusing Sisterhood exists precisely is not destiny, and that male and murder, forced prostitution, fashions, customs, etiquette, female roles are learned- indeed be responsible providers. where women have found that they are male political constructs Increasingly, to redeem the physical mutiliation, sadistic "humor", and subliminal something better than the War that serve to ensure power and status cruel inadequacies of mortal psychological abuse, and other advertising. Finding our own for men." men, the Christian Right offers common places of female State, rejecting the offered Annne Koedt women the love of Jesus; experience given by divine spark, we seize charge of beautiful, tender, contemporary survivors is the nameless fears, unbearable compassionate healer; the-one buried in cultural invisibility and quilt feelings for affirming ourI male a woman may submit to contempt. One must believe in own being, fear of our newly absolutely, without being the existence of the person in discovered powers and of sexually violated or order to recognize the successful use of them, fear of psychologically abused. authenticity of her suffering. discovering/releasing our own I Marabel Morgan describes her By committing themselves to deep wells of anger. We spark, own marital misery and male values, women "seek to igniting light and warmth, desperation preceeding her acquire value. By advocating creating, moving, expanding the discovery of God's will. She male meaning; women seek tc self and seeking our sisters. recalls years of tension, acquire meaning. Subservient The spinster, does not become conflict, boredom and gloom. to male will, women believe fixated on the atrocity of Her solution -"It is only when a that subservience itself is the andiocracy, but spins on her heel and takes to other directions, woman surrenders her life to meaning of a female life. There are an increasing number cludes the possibility of her husband, reveres and The right is a social and depending less and less upon of automobile showrooms in successful imitation. worships him, and is willing to political movement controlled male approval, recognizing that America displaying cars which If you're intrigued by the thought resemble, compare themselves to of owning an original instead of a serve him, that she becomes almost totally by men but built such approval is often a reward for weakness. Hag; from the old or even claim to perform “like” the reproduction, contact us through really beautiful to him." Citing very largely on the fear and BMW 320. These claims are test drive at your convenience. God as the authority and ignorance of women. English meaning "harpy, witch." made with considerably more The Ultimate Driving Machine. submission to Jesus as the Fear of a greater evil and a Websters' gives the archaic as "a ambition than the cars B.M.W MUNICH, GERMANY. need to be protected from it female demon", also "an ugly or themselves. model, Morgan defines love as Because the 320 performs so "unconditional acceptance of intensifies the loyalty of women evil looking woman." Spinsters ask; ugly or evil to whom? For exceptionally, and holds its value man "rod his feelings". She has to men who are, even when so well, that one critic called it "the taken the basic sexual dangerous, at least known the beauty of strong, creative quintessential sports sedan’ - a scenarios of male dominance quantities. Having reason to women is ugly; misogynistic designation that pre- and female submission within hate, but not the courage to standards of beauty. We begin to the context of a Christian value rebel, women require symbols understand names in their radical system, she gives a how to in of danger which justify their sense. catering to male pornographic fear. The Right provides these The original, primary meaning of fantasies in the name of Jesus symbols of danger by "haggard" means "untamed", so- Christ. "Learn to capitalize on designating clearly defined called obsolete meanings include disappointment and groups of out-I siders as "intractable", "willful", "wanton", heartbreak.., hold him in sources of peril; e.g. I racism, and "unchaste", also "wild in reverence, it says in the Bible... anti-semitism[ homophobia. appearance, wild eyed and it is your nature to give... Tell The tragedy is that women so especially "a woman reluctant to him you love his body, if you committed to survival cannot yield to wooing". recognize they are committing choke on that phrase, practice "OVER A DECADE OF DEPENDABILITY" until it comes out naturally.., be suicide as self sacrificing foot prepared mentally and soldiers who obey orders, no "A woman must never be free of physically for intercourse every matter how criminal. subjugation.” Hindu Code of Manu, V night this week ... are you guilty Marion Motors BMW ltd. "1 thank thee, 0 Lord, that thou 613 Marion St. of that heinious act ingratitude? has not created me o woman." A wife cannot be grateful if she Daily Orthodox Jewish Prayer Winnipeg, Manitoba grasping for her rights." in Edited from "Creator of the heavens and the' Phone: 247-7034 effect, a submissive nature is The Promise of Earth, He has given you wives the miracle for which religious The Ultra Right, from among yourselves to multiply women pray. Andrea Dworkin, 1979. you, and cattle... Nothing can be We also sell & service a wide selection campared with Him." of used cars. Holy Koran of Islam Horizons - May 17, 1982 - Page 6

The latest “poop" from the Pope "heretic"'--Wlthln changes, there would have been by Erin F. Phillips an ethical economy is one .in which the tensions surrounding value in identifying the problems the Mormon church and at least endorsing the right of On September 14th, 1981, Pope capital and labour are over- women to solutions. John Paul II issued an encyclical come and where human dignity The second missing factor is the "7 am a warrior in the time of women warriors; entitled Laborem Exercens. This of all is preserved. protection of the father's right to be the longing for justice is the sword I carry, encyclical, which dealt with A fundamental part of involved with the family. Nowhere the love of womankind my shield. "" SoMa Johnson labor, was described by some John Paul's vision of an does John Paul raise the right of a as "radical." However, while he organic society is the family worker, regardless of sex, to an adequate private life. Perhaps in dealt more extensively than unit. Family life, he states, is a From Housewife to Heretic: One "'I am Sonia- woman, human Western Industrial countries others before him with certain Women's Struggle For Equal being, glad to be alive, loving "natural right and something maximum work weeks have been Rights and Her Excommunication every second of it. I was dead issues, John Paul did not depart man is called to." Work, in that established but this is not the case From the Mormon Church. Sonia radically from the social teaching it provides subsistance for the universally. In areas where people and am alive. I had wandered Johnson. of John XXIII or Paul VI. An family and helps members of (particularly men) are forced into far from home and have at last Doubleday & Co. $14.95/Hard I indication that the encyclical migratory work, the right of a found my way home again. "' the family become more still thought I could be a good was meant to follow the father to be a part of family is Sonia Johnson faithfully tried human, is a vital part of John Mormon and a good feminist at crucial to a well balanced society. for over 40 years to follow traditional teaching of the Paul's vision of a good society. the same time. It took repeated One can argue this without even Church is the fact that it was With the stress on the family beatings of my unbelieving head patriarchal authoritarianism with raising the question of whether the released on the ninetieth comes the discussion of women against the solid rock of all her "heart, soul, mind, and traditional family model of working anniversary of Return Novarum, as mothers. chauvinism, and an strength." She was an obedient further and home keeping mother a momuntental encycli8cal on Basically John Paul calls excommunication, to teach me the wife and mother in the Church used by John Paul is necessary. impossibility of that combination. of Jesus Christ of Latter Day work. However, in light of the for a "social re-evaluation of Despite the tact that the "family Women cannot serve two masters situation in Poland the concern the mother's role" in raising wage" paid to the father betrays Saints (Mormon) until she was at once who are urgently beaming expressed in Laborem Exercens children that are "responsible, an assumption about the model of introduced to feminism. When antithetical orders, though I know for human rights, including the morally and religiously mature the family, there are more this type of woman breaks from many who are trying to do just that right to associate in unions, had and psychologically stable per- progressive assumptions about the patriarchal mold, she does -- compromising, adjusting, women's work in the encyclical. so with a deep experience of all the appearance some said, of a sons." rationalizing, excusing, He Calls society to make Part of the debate in recent years radical statement. apologizing for the men and for the issues involved. She knows it possible for a woman to stay among (male) historians has been Less "commented on was what men's system. I understand firsthand what ramifications are whether or not women's home the encyclical had to say about at home and take care of her perfectly why they do this, having present in the system. work, including having children, women and labor. There is little children without "inhibiting her done it myself for years. But it is Developing her story by means should be considered work. freedom, without psychological psychologically unhealthful and in of anecdotes which portray disscussion within the encyclical “The more conservative scholars or practical discrimination, and the long run spiritually disastrous on specific issues of women's deal only with paid work while family, church, and community for both sexes. Either we believe problems in the work force. This without penalizing her as com- those who are more progressive attitudes, Sonia relates in patriarchy -- the rule of men is not to say that women are pared with other women". For- deal with the work done by women common religious patterns with over women -- or we believe in ignored-by the encyclical The cing women to leave the home in the home. some specifically Mormon ones equality. We cannot believe in both for paid work hurts society and Surprising perhaps to those who (testimony meetings involving provision is made early that at once. the family. To deal with the would expect the Pope to be in the "man" is to mean both male and Neither can we with impunity witnessing concerning problem he makes two pro- conservative camp, John Paul female. However the only choose not to choose which one paranorreal occurrences). The makes the radical presumption explicit statement on women posals, either pay the father a we believe in. To remain in book alludes to some important that work done in the home should comes in a section named family wage that a family can indecision, and perhaps thus to changes which could occur if be included in an encyclical on live on or pay family allowances have our cake and eat it too, women were allowed to take "Wages and Other Social labor. In fact his proposal of a to mothers who stay at home, erodes great chunks o four Benefits." mother's allowance looks much part in Morman temple relative to the number of identity, along with great chunks of As part of "man" women like a wage for work many women ceremonies (temple rites are children they have. our integrity. presumabely Would be entitled are already doing. The allowances secret and men perform ~ the For the 17 years preceding my to the fights advocated in the Despite the fact that the would mean that a woman would blessings and priesthood feminist awakening in 1978, I was not be forced to leave her work in functions) and describes her encyclical, the right to encyclical deals with the specific living a sort of half life, a grayish, the home for work that paid better. meaningful, safe work, the right problems encountered by the half-awake limbo of neither clouds own healing from arthritis by In all, Laborem Erercens does not to free association, the right to handicapped and by farmers, nor sunlight, a gray, same faith healing. make radical statements on rest and relation, the right to there is no discussion of the pro- numbness. Because I was not The book's emphasis is politics women's work. reasonably priced health care, blems encountered by women. allowing myself to feel the pain of and social activism rather than As a part of the paid work force Huge disparities in their in- oppression, and was in fact theology, yet Johnson's account the right to old age and accident they are entitled to the same rights comes in comparison to men, actively denying it, I was unable to insurance, and the right to as men and in this area the of the Mother God is powerful feel emotions on the other side of having a say in the running of job insecurity, discriminatory encyclical makes some substantial and important. The Mormon the continuum either. society. The common good of all hiring, the need for legal and statements. Trinity is not "3 in 1", but 3 Feminism called upon me to have can not be subordinated to the pension reform and sexual in- separate personages: Father, the courage to grow up, to timidation on the job are just a However, John Paul falls to carry Son, and male Holy Spirit ... right to private property of discover and exercise my few of the problems that could the encyclical far enough to deal individuals or the ownership of womanly strength, to be unafraid But the Mother God is the wife with problems encountered capital. John Paul's vision of have been looked at. Even if he of pain ~- and the pain is of Father God. Mormon specifically by women. chose not to identify svecific immeasureable - knowing that fully missionaries advised me, in experienced, it makes joy fully 1966 (before the women's possible. if a friend were to ask me movement hit Mormon country), today who I am, I would answer that God's wife is not unhestiatingly. mentioned publicly nor prayed to, so that Mormonism would not seem too foreign to potential converts. Sonia states that she was advised that both non-mention and non-prayer are to "protect" Mother God. Whatever the reason, Sonia states that the psychological reason is to keep women from feeling that they have an ally in Heaven. Sonia's refusal to be hoodwinked and cowed by her bishop and her heresy trial is a superb act of courage and model for all women to follow. The book concentrates on the Mormon church's political lobbying against the ERA. Fascinating details are given, together with the comical well known story of the counter activity of flying banners. Patricia D. Highby Abridged from Big Mama Ra8 HERizons - May 17, 1982 - Page 7

by Barbara Roberts A Woman Friend place within Friends: Margaret Fell It was a woman friend who me to meeting, I kept going Generally I felt okay when I did sious. Friends act when there is consensus (of course that means that Fox, an early Quaker organizer and introduced me to the Quakers. I partly because it was like an that). I have felt dose to others everything takes forever and some writer; antislavery worker and met her in the summer of 1973 extension of my experiences of things never get done). The peace preach~ Sarah Harrison; Laura beyond the power of words to when she was teaching history at sisterhood and growth in the testimony is another central Friends' Haviland who was Simon Fraser University where I women's movement. describe I have felt filled with belief. "Superintendent" of the US It springs from accepting that: that of was a student. Jo Vellacott is a The Society of Friends is a laughter or with tears. I have Underground Railroad; Sarah and been so shaken that it was hard Goddess in every person. The classic small woman in her fifties, with mainly Christian movement, statement of the peace testimony Angelina Grimke; Lucretia Mutt; silky flyaway hair and the kind of originating in 17th century to breathe. All this from silence originates in the 1660s and appears Susan B. Anthony; most of the open, child innocent blue eyes England. There is no official together. My life has become today among Friends: "We utterly women who organized the 1848 you see in toddlers before they dogma, creed, or set of rules increasingly centred around deny all outward wars and strife and Seneca Falls convention; five of the fighting with outward weapons for any first eight women doctors in the US; learn not to to She sometimes about what you must believe to these meetings It's how I find end or any pretence whatsoever" This astronomer Marie Mitchell;prison has an air of vagueness about be a Friend. There arc traditions, out from myself what I feel and does not mean peace at any price. what I must do about my life. reformer Elizabeth Fry; Alice Paul, her, almost of shyness. She lets but they change over time. What Rather it means a commitment to who originated the women's rights her ice cream cones drip all over each Friend says and does is I find profound paradoxes in nonviolent methods to reach just ends. anumdment and founded the everything. She's a brilliant based on her own experience, being a Friend. Although there Women's Party; head of the US is no official creed, there are I found some parts of the Quaker scholar. She's the best teacher I and it is to that ex that she is peace testimony hard to swallow at Children's Bureau Grace Abbott; ever met. She continues to have asked to turn for guidance. The some generally accepted first. I found it hard to accept the sex educator Mary Calderone; a profound effect on my life. heart of Friends" experience is beliefs and practices. Most notion that men were human and sociologist Elise Boulding and Jo had been a Quaker for years the Meeting .for Worship (in fact Friends believe that: "that of salvageable. dozens of activists in the Women's My reaction to men as a group was a before I met her. She in turn had Friends have Meeting for Goddess/the Spirit in every International League for Peace and mixture of contempt, scorn, fear and Freedom, Voice of Women, a host been introduced to the Society of Worship for Business, and for person". Each of us has access rage. I felt so powerless that I couldn't of national and international Friends by a woman professor tO an inner Voice, Truth, Light. contemplate giving up any weapon I Eating,). Meetings are generally government and non-government Friends may explain the source could get my hands on, violent or not. while Jo was at college in unstructured gatherings where agencies -- such as Alice Shaffer of of this inner Light in various Gradually, as I became more in touch England in the Thirties. participants sit in silence and UNICEF-Latin America. I think ways ~ but the explanation is with that of the Goddess within me This woman, also a Quaker, listen for an inner voice. and within others as a source of many of these women would remind spent her school breaks Sometimes someone feels seldom an issue: to each her power, my feelings began to change. me of Jo and other women Friends I smuggling Jews out of Europe. I impelled to speak about a own. The point is, it's there. All Jo Vellacott sent me a copy of a talk know -the perfectly ordinary-looking think Jo admired her greatly, as 1 thought, feeling, or experience that friends do, follow from this. she had given on "Women, power and women who can be so quietly and peace" where she speaks of the came to admire Jo. When 1 important to her. Others listen Another generally accepted matter of factly brave that I can't resourcelessness that underlies believe I might be one of them. visited Jo in Toronto a year later, not only to her words, but to the practice is that Friends as a violence, and resourcefulness that I am most comfortable with the she took me to a Friends' spirit behind the words. (This rule do not have hierarchies, supports nonviolence. She points out social activist and feminist traditions Meeting for Worship. l'm still was the only instruction Jo gave special sacraments, or clergy. that people she knows who lead truly All people are sacred, every nonviolent lives are those who touch of Friends, going to the meetings. me: if I didn't feel comfortable although in many ways friends day is a sacrament. We are all with the source of power - what At the time I met Jo, I was about what someone said, try to Friends mean by “that of the Goddess reflect the societies they live in: already a committed feminist. listen for the spirit behind it. responsible for making dec in every person.” Resourceful, I could sexist, authoritarian, hierarchal, and For me, this meant strong ties begin to accept that men are people, patriarchal. Yet inherent in being a with my women friends, feeling and that there is something of Friend, there is a commitment to goddess within them too. Many other confront and challenge these forms part era community of women, women many other feminists have part of a network of sisterhood found of oppression. For me, being a that covered the globe and Friend is rooted in my experience of reached across time. My CR the sisterhood of man and all humankind.

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futurew Daly is a doctor several times theories to the realities of living. resulting in the naming, Gyn/Ecology -- The over, and currently occupies an She accuses all philosophers of describing, and theorizing about Radical Metaethics of associate professorship at Boston the crime of erasure; tradi- good and evil that constitutes a Feminism University's faculty of theology. A tionally relegating certain con- complex web of deceit with a by Mary 17my veteran of academia, she swiftly cerns to the level of "trivia" to stranglehold on all fife. Our Beacon Press~1978 debunks the myths surrounding devalue women's experience. objectification and alienation traditional scholarship and Daly stresses con- occur when we are locked within proceeds to peel back the veils of male- centered, one-dimensional by Mmmie Pastuck deception~ pseudo-dichotomies nectedness, and the high and blatant lies inherent in so creativity necessary to seeing in- definition; the all-pervasive This book is classified called "higher learning." She raps terconnections between ap- language of myth, overt & covert under philosophy, religion and the worship of "professionalism'" parently disparate things. In in religion, "great art," literature, women's studies, it is all as the male elite and refutes the this ambitious book she traces dogmas of professionalism, and more. self-serving pronouncements of the multi manifestations of media, and grammar. it takes immense psychic male experts. worldwide androcratic culture. Required of the feminist on this energy to assimilate this syn- Daly abandons the deadening The aquisition of this journey of spiritual self-discovery thesis of theology, mythology, process of typical scholarastic knowledge in Daly's book is a is courageous sinning. history, medicine, and political methodology, (the fragmentation journey and an excorcism. She -- To question the sources; to of various "fields", the non-feeling calls for the emergence of ruthlessly expose layers of theory. It requires great coural~e stance of "objectivity") and does to see the horror, the banal evil not seek to elevate the thinker radical Being of women; that is mindbinding reversal, then of history that Daly so "above" the mundane.Rather, she a discovery and creation of a emerging through. This scrupulously exposes, but she incorporates pedestrian within world other than Patriarchy, a demystification process is does not simply recite global abstractions. And this is the call to claim our own spirituali- tantamount to ecstasy. Women crimes against women. She of- essense of her genius; to always ty and revive the Goddess; must grasp the fers hope, alternatives; pointing come back in her Recognizing the divinity in pseudodichotomies/dual decoys the way to the free state of woman and nature. in traditional thought; self/other, "Hagocracy." where feminists Ours is a culture ~ thought/action; spirit/matter, come together in truth and by the myth of feminine evil, continued celebration. HERizons -- by May 17, 19112 -- page 8

ii that depict the three Fates, the 3 women of their integrity, and intent; far from healing, but a Gyn/Ecology continued from page 7 Finding graces, the Moirae. The original transforming them into a hollow violent enforcement of the sexual void waiting to be made by the east e system. "Disorderly" These categorizations distract her own exhaultant divinity. female trinity, whose symbol was male, a mere functional co- women were routinely handed from the reality of both deep Confronted with the implications the tree of life and whose shrines ordinate between father and SOn. over by husbands and fathers for knowing and external action. of religious exclusion of all stood at every fork in the The stubborn human belief in radical treatment. Again and again Daly returns to female mythic presence, we road,has been consigned to parthenogenesis has found a Crude sexual surgery made a lot the connective skeins of social recognize the all-male trinity as "trivia". Tracing to pre patriarchal modern equivalent in cloning: a of physicians of the last century phenomena, endeavoring to the epitome of male bonding. times we find Tri Via, or three deliberate effort to remove very wealthy as they claimed to make ourselves whole, to regain Sublime (disguised) erotic male ways, synonymous of the creativity from women and re- elevate their patients' moral our integrity, it is essential we homosexual mythos; the perfect multiplicity of life. Trivia today is establish it in the realm of male sense, make them industrious resist the fragmentation cast all-male marriage; the ideal all trifles; common, ordinary, and control and domination. The and cleanly. upon us in all codifications, male family, the best boys club, insignificant. Fitting to Christian demolition of the The phallocracy teems with classifications of human thought the model monastery, the patriarchial values, the Goddess and mythic perpetrators of iatrogenic and experience. ultimate men's association, the commonplace is of little worth, in establishment of male divinity has disease; soul doctors; (priests Patriarchy is the prevailing mold for all varieties of male competitive hierarchal society raved the way for the and gurus), mind doctors religion of the entire planet and monogender mating. The mythic scarcity is intrinsic to worth; thus technological limination of women (psychiatrists, ad-men, its essential message is paradiem of the trinity is the gold is more important than through the application of modern academics); and body doctors necrophilia worship, according most refined, explicit, clean air. Trivia then is concrete medicine, transsexualism; cloning (physicians, and fashion to Daly. Buddhism and expression of patriarchal evidence of Her and other genetic engineering. designers); all are hostile to Hinduism, islam, judaism, patterning of society. multidimensional presence "Sophisticated" persons will deny female well being. christianity; secular derivatives Virginia Woolf saw the death- reduced to the nothingness/ that old Christian myth has any The Necrophile myth functions as such as Freudianism, oriented processions barreness created by the fathers controlling effect on behavior or self-fulfilling prophecy. jungianism, marxism, and ensconsed in pomp and in their own image and likeness. beliefs. In fact, the characteristics Christianity promises maoism, all are infrastructures ceremony, self-legitimizing As Helen Diner has shown in of sado/masochistic ritual Armageddon -- the book of of the same ediface. through repetitive ritual. Christianity the tree of life permeate western culture and is Revelation -- a series of Inherent to this, the oppression (Pagan is from "paganos" becomes the torture cross of the actively promoted by earthquakes, drought, assorted of women knows no ethnic, meaning civilian) Soldiers of world. The fertile goddess is technocracy. Mental/moral horrors, plagues, and the graphic national, or religious bounds; Christ, in essence varades of replaced by the dying body dismemberment, continual mind/ punishment of a famous and the barbarous rituals costumed men, a giant funeral hanging on dead wood. In this spirit/body pollution in the prostitute. Ultimately destructive ancient and modern uff mask march dragging with them all life collossal reversal, in keeping interests of consumer society patriarchy has through modern the very real, existential forms. God the father requires with the bizarre .belief system profiteering, assaults us every technology facilitated movement meaning of Goddess murder in total sacrifice/destruction and enforced by the Church, the day in massive public relations beyond passive expectation to the concrete lives of women. this salvation army seeks more blatant the lie, the greater promoting violation and death active enactment of the Citing the Babylonian genesis, reconciliation with the father. the credibility. disguised as pornographic envisioned haulocast. (predating) patriarchy) in which Radical feminism does not seek Men become mothers in "entertainment". Trained to Technologists sons of Christian the primordial parents fought reconciliation; rather it releases patriarchial myth. (Adam gives believe the unbelievable, that the culture have led the way in acting and in legend He slew Her; so the inherent dynamic in the birth to Eve; Zeus to Athena) crucified christ glorifies suffering out apocalyptic myth with nuclear began the colonization of the mother-daughter relationship. evidencing men's envy of female as a means to purification, and development. Scientists, as planet by variations of ritualized Myths are said to be stories creative energy in all of its ultimate joy in the "afterlife", so to priests of the phallocracy, are female dismemberment. Daly expressive of intuitive insights dimensions. Truly, the condition does secular S/M gospel proclaim busy performing the last rites, shows that the continuing and relating to the activities of of men is to be childless; female suffering as joy. just as patriarchal scholars practices of Suttee in India, the gods. Mythical figures are disturbing to those obsessed Torture for "higher causes", both extend and continue the sado- 1,000 years of Chinese symbols, said to open all depths with reproduction of the male religious and secular is ritual on all life forms with footbinding, the continuing of reality otherwise closed. Daly self. Thus, there is an legitimized. A necrophile society language; authorities who are practices of clitoridectomy in postulates it is not often (unacknowledged) evidence in does not construct brutality to detached apologists for atrocity. Africa, etc. are related, and far suggested they may also dose ethical writings on abortion, of a learn.. In naming her work Gyn/Ecology more sinister, atrocious, than off depths of reality otherwise widespread male-tendency to Amnesty International exposes Daly is wrenching back some "authorities" who call such open to us. identify with the fetus, and torture as a world wide word power. gynocide "customs" would have Living in Post-patriarchal time/ assume the role of controller, phenomena. The Modern Age Ecology is the complex web of us believe. space; feminists recall the possesor and inhibitor of women. has engendered a super interrelationships between Patriarchy is a state of war, and immortal Metis, goddess of The surgeons and hormone refinement of technique, and organisms and environment and sado/masochism is the basic wisdom, who presided over all therapists of transsexual practice there is a striking resemblance she coins the word structure of all it's knowledge. Androcratic culture in their efforts to give birth can between the "treatments" in "biophilic" (non existant up till manifestations, Duly purports. has her swallowed by Zeus be said to produce feminine political prisons and mental now) as a start to the The demolition of all female while pregnant with Athenia. persons. They cannot produce hospitals. monumental task that lies ahead. presence in the realm of The Greeks began ascribing women. Femininity is a man- The fact that most gynecologists "Bios" means life and let all of us spiritual matters and wisdom to this prototype of male made construct having are men is a collossal comment who by some quirk happen to be establishment of all male divinity cannibalism. The essentially nothing to do with on male control over women. The life loving take up the term as we has paved the way for the parthenogentic Mother is femaleness. specialty displays a certain move beyond patriarchy and technological elimination of the devoured so Zeus may give In Judco-Christian culture indifference and fatalism toward discover the Goddess within. "other" - woman and nature. birth through his head, wereby women are forced to become the diseases of women. Daly Daly succinctly stated during a Necroophilia is expressed in the Athena became his mouthpiece; mindlessly "normal", shows us the hideous origins of lecture that "a little bit of feminism worship of speed and machines male identified, employing murderously "selfless", or these "experts", that these is going to get you punished, so as living forces, glorification of priests, urging men into battle moronically "sexy" -- the real self medical practitioners arose in you might as well go all the way." war, destruction of culture and and siding against women. is silenced. Faced with the direct response to the first wave Overcoming silencing is an rampant misogyny. Likewise the original triune theological minimizing of virgin of feminism. extreme act in a sequence of Radical feminist analysis Goddesses in their many forms Mary we see a dutifully dulled The early gynecologists openly extreme acts, demanding that a reaches a point of recognizing have been usurped. Today derivative, drained of divinity, declared "their purpose woman live in existential courage patriarchal myth in the deepest images still exist in Western Art ravished, crushed, tamed, silenced remnant of femaleness. while she becomes continued sense, as distortions. For page 5 women to see through male The annunciation/virgin birth gender deity is to begin to live, strips all

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