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31 Mar

A Couple of Lenten Links

Posted March 31, 2014 by Julian O'Dea in Uncategorized. Tagged: , .

I have no inspiration for a new post now, so I shall just post a couple of worthy links.

I will start with these ones, and probably add a couple more.

“My husband is the head of our household“.

Pope Francis goes to confession.

6 responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Jim on March 31, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    From your first link:

    ” Why on earth do feminists think housewives are subservient and submissive?”

    Because they’re supposed to be. That’s the natural order of things. They only have any rights at all because we allow them to have them. Also we (men) BUILT civilization. They (women) are merely the beneficiary of it. Even Camille Paglia admits that if it were left up to women we’d still be living in grass huts.

    But society has become so insanely politically correct that ANY notion of anything outside of perfect and complete egalitarianism (something which is impossible anyway) is the same thing as “hate”. Some of these people need a dictionary.

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    • Posted by Julian O'Dea on March 31, 2014 at 8:59 pm

      Jim, I agree her article is not perfect, but it is a start.

      She is obviously nervous of a backlash from her “sisters”.

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      • Posted by Jim on March 31, 2014 at 9:27 pm

        True. You have a point there Julian.

        Your views are closer to mine than anyone else in the so-called “manosphere”. Too many of them are still harping on this “equality” bandwagon. I can’t really blame them in because I once did that as well. I think people need to realize though that humans being “sexist” isn’t a problem. Why? Because NATURE is sexist. We can’t legislate nature and biology out of existence.

      • Posted by Julian O'Dea on March 31, 2014 at 11:29 pm

        Well, I should point out that some of the posts here, including the ones arguing that women are inferior to men, were actually written by women. I do agree that assuming equality is just that, an assumption, and there are good grounds to argue that women are inferior to men in some respects at least.

        There is a truly astonishing level of pedestalisation of women these days. It has become quite ridiculous.

        I was thinking of writing a full post on this, but I will just throw this in here. There has been much complaining about Jimmy Carter and his remarks that the Catholic Church excluding women from the priesthood contributes to domestic violence because it makes men think they can rule women. Or some such argument. Many Catholics are denying any connection. But I actually think Carter has a point. He has intuited a truth. Namely that the Christian Churches, including the Catholic (see Inter Insigniores, 1976, a statement on women and the priesthood), have traditionally seen women as subject to men and secondary to men. Scripture is full of statements that make it clear that women are under men in the natural order. I am mystified as to how Christians have reached the present state of pedestalising of women. As the current jocular phrase has it, Do They Even Bible?

      • Posted by Jim on April 1, 2014 at 12:19 am

        Well, I would guess that “Christian” women throw out the stuff that doesn’t appeal to their ego while holding on to the stuff that doesn’t offend it. As for the guys, well, they’re pussy beggars. Men in the west have become such sniveling wimps that they put women on this pedestal like they’re some kind of goddess. As if they could do no wrong. It’s REALLY bizarre.

  2. Posted by Full-Fledged Fiasco on April 2, 2014 at 7:01 pm

    William Caldwell Roscoe, Woman, in Poems and Essays, Vol. II, Chapman & Hall. London, 1860.

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