In my defense, I didn't say women, I said stupid women. I can only think that women who believe they have never been hurt by the gun lobby, the nicotine lobby, the insurance lobby, or the religious right must be stupid. Of course, the other alternative is brainwashed.
This is a long post; I am adding this paragraph in the editing phase to say to my friend Michelle: thank you. When I made the comment that there is no accounting for stupid women, I knew there would be an onslaught of ire. I just sat back and enjoyed it. Thank Asherah that there are many more smart and compassionate women than stupid ones.
gun lobby: relentlessly works toward one aim, to enhance the profitability of selling guns. Hence, no controls of any kind will ever be allowed by them. How many women's lives have been devastated by this blind worship of such a deadly phallic symbol?
nicotine lobby: pushing the idea that tobacco will keep you thin -- and therefore acceptible as a human being. Who cares you rot from the inside out, as long as you're good to look at? Notice how many teenage girls smoke (and stink) these days.
insurance lobby: in a word, Viagra. Insurance carriers pay for men to get it up, but resist all efforts to require them to pay for birth control pills. This attitude permeates the health insurance business. It took an act of Congress (those busybody buttinskies) to make drug companies test their products for efficacy in women. Till then, all studies were done for men only.
religious right: what can I say? The god of monotheism, Yahweh, has always had it in for women, and that attitude has shaped the course of western civilization. The main objective of the prophets of Yahweh from post-exilic times forward has been the destruction of the goddess.
Just read Kings 1 and Kings 2. All the kings of Judah and Israel (yes, the kingdom split during the reign of Rehoboam, Solomon's son, because Rehoboam -- well, that's going too far afield). Anyway, all the kings are described as either doing good or evil in the eyes of Yahweh. (By the way, whenever it says "the Lord" in the bible, that is a substitute for "Yahweh". When the priests decided no one could say his name, new copies of the scrolls replaced the name Yahweh with "the Lord.") There was only one criterion for ending up on the good side or the evil side: whether or not the king allowed the worship of other gods, including the goddess Asherah who was the goddess the women worshipped. Yahweh was the god of the militant men. (Yahweh Sabaoth, or Lord of Hosts, means "warrior god".)
As time went by, goddess worship was associated with prostitution (metaphorically) and was cited as the reason that the Judahites were taken into captivity in Babylon. When Cyrus let them go back to Judah and rebuild the temple, the Yahweh-only faction of the priesthood started pushing their "agenda".
They won.
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