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As I wrote in Gyn/Ecology: all
patriarchal religions are patriarchal—right? They take different forms. What
would I think? There's nothing to think about. It has taken another
form—seductive, probably, because christianity is so overtly warlike and
abusive. And furthermore, I don't know what "enlightened" means. It's
not a word that's in my vocabulary. This is like a christian woman being upset
over something that Paul said, instead of seeing that of course he's an
asshole. He's one more very macho asshole described as a saint and as
enlightened, and once you get over that, you get over it. You see it for what
it is and you don't worry about why he would say such a thing. Of course he
would say such a thing. That's what he is. It's really extremely simple. Stop
wrestling with it; it's not interesting. Get out of it. That would be my
approach to it. Misogynists! Hateful! All of them! I studied them. And finally
I just didn't try to reason with it anymore…The experience of being fired for
writing The Church and the Second Sex introduced me to the idea that it's not
going to change. That's the way it is.”
~ ~Mary Daly (Interview with
EnlightenNext magazine, Fall-Winter 1999)
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
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