I can't believe that 20-30 years later, we still have this kind of opinion, from GIRLS! But then, at least in France, I think the way women are considered in society is going backwards, not forward. And I am also sorry to say that it is due to the growing presence of Islam here, coupled with a surge of the hard nut Catholics who want to show they are there too and won't leave all the space to the Muslims![/color]
Isabelle,I'm with you in the sinking feeling that in some places, women's rights seems to be marching backwards for every step forward. I don't know why that is. Power again, I suppose. Whenever men feel threatened in society or downtrodden, they always take it out on someone weaker than themselves. For every woman who wants to be considered a person, her rights recognized, her feelings considered, there is a man who doesn't want the headache and competition of someone else's needs.
It's a lot easier on a person to be a dictator. He gets his needs met and doesn't really have to worry about anyone elses. And if he can get religion to back him up, all the better to keep her down.
Almost every single religion on this planet was written by men and -hey whaddaya know! - every god thinks it's a divine thing to keep women in the home and taking care of the kids and a man's needs.
I noticed that when women write religions - modern religions - there is never anything about the gods saying a woman should stay in the home and be subservient
if she doesn't want to.Go figure.
Hiya
Aussie, It's not that women aren't allowed in religious hierarchy because they may tempt the men, it's because men see them as inferior. Since when did it become the men's prerogative to think that?
Basically, from what I've discovered, it all comes down to a stupidly immature playground attitude. A man considers himself superior to a woman because he could beat her up in a fistfight. Power. She can be eloquent, intelligent, a problem-solver, etc, but when it comes right down to it, she can't MAKE him do anything he doesn't want to. She can't enforce her desires and wants.
He can. Hence, he's the more powerful and thus, superior.
And why do women let them? There are more women on the planet then men, so how is it that men dominate?
Mental wiring. Men think they're dominating. Women think we're cooperating.