Why I Am A Feminist-Quotes to Ponder.

"Woman in her greatest perfection should have known that man was lord above her; and therefore that she should never have pretended any kind of superiority above him, no more than do the angels above God the Creator, or above Christ their head." `John Knox 1500s

"Woman is a stupid vessel over whom man must always hold power, for the man is higher and better than she; for the regiment and dominion belong to man as the head and master of the house." `Martin Luther

"The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to council them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them—these are the duties of women at all times, and should be taught them from their infancy."
"Woman was made to yield to man and put up with his injustice."
`Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God." Augustine

"Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman."Clement of Alexandria

"Woman is slow in understanding and her unstable and naive mind renders her by way of natural weakness to the necessity of a strong hand in her husband. Her 'use' is two fold; [carnal] sex and motherhood."Pope Gregory I

For man was not created from woman, but woman from man;
Neither was man created on account of or for the benefit of woman, but woman on account of and for the benefit of man.
Therefore she should be subject to his authority and should have a covering on her head as a token, a symbol, of her submission to authority, that she may show reverence as do the angels and not displease them. 1 Corinthians 11;8-10

The women should keep quiet in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but should take a secondary and subordinate place, just as the Law also says.
But if there is anything they want to learn, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful [a shame] for a woman to talk in church for her to usurp and exercise authority over men in the church 1 Corinthians 11;34-35

God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.  Tertullian, “the father of Latin Christianity” 

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good. –Saint Albertus Magnus, Dominican theologian

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence. –Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church

  The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes. – Martin Luther

 No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. – Martin Luther

   Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children. – Martin Luther

  Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude. –John Calvin

 as the church must fear Christ Jesus, so must the wives also fear their husbands. And this inward fear must be shewed by an outward meekness and lowliness in her speeches and carriage to her husband. . . . For if there be not fear and reverence in the inferior, there can be no sound nor constant honor yielded to the superior. – John Dod, A Plain and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandments

  The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker- Joseph Smith

The Holiness of God is not evidenced in women when they are brash, brassy, boisterous, brazen, head-strong, strong-willed, loud-mouthed, overly-talkative, having to have the last word, challenging, controlling, manipulative, critical, conceited, arrogant, aggressive, assertive, strident, interruptive, undisciplined, insubordinate, disruptive, dominating, domineering, or clamoring for power. Rather, women accept God’s holy order and character by being humbly and unobtrusively respectful and receptive in functional subordination to God, church leadership, and husbands. --James Fowler, Women in the Church

 "We should look upon the female state as it were a deformity, though one that occurs in the ordinary course of nature" -ARISTOTLE

 "Educating a woman is like pouring honey over a fine Swiss watch. It stops working" -KURT VONNEGUT

  "The souls of women are so small, Some believe they have none at all." -JOHN DONNE (British Poet 1573-1631)

"Girls begin to talk and stand sooner on their feet than boys, because weeds always grow more quickly than good crops" -MARTIN LUTHER 

"Direct thought is not an attribute of femininity. In this, woman is now centuries...behind men."-THOMAS ALVA EDISON

The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. Pat Robertson

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Rush Limbaugh

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals -- most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men -- that's their problem. -Jerry Falwell

"God protect us from the efficient, go-getter businesswoman whose feminine instincts have been completely sterilized. Wherever women are functioning, whether in the home or in a job, they must remember that their chief function as women is a capacity for warm, understanding and charitable human relationships."
Some very interesting facts have been uncovered by scientists which will feminists will have to treat very gingerly for they show that it is not merely society which determines how the sexes will behave.... The idea of matriarchy is mythical, I’ve learned, for not one that can be documented has ever existed. Doesn’t it seem strange that male dominance has been universal if it’s purely social conditioning? One would expect to see at least a few examples of societies where women rather than men held the positions of highest status.... Isn’t’ it really much easier to believe that the feelings of men and women throughout history bear a direct relationship to some innate prerequisite? ... It was God who made us different, and He did it on purpose. Recent scientific research is illuminating, and as has happened before, corroborates ancient truth which mankind has always recognized. God created male and female, the male to call forth, to lead, initiate and rule, and the female to respond, follow adapt, submit."
~ Elisabeth Elliot

"If you women continue to demand your choice to work, you will so upset the economy of this country that the time will come when you will not have a choice. You will have to work."
~ Helen Andelin
   

New Year

Welcome 2014

Just a note...

Happy Holidays! : )

Happy Thanksgiving...

A little note to wish you a nice holiday as you celebrate the deaths of millions of natives in the process to WASP nation of freedoms that are still not offered to everyone in the US after nearly 250 years of its birth and nearly 400 years since the Plymouth rock landing. I think it is quite obvious we only continue to call it a holiday because there's lots of food involved and let's face it, Americans love food, sometimes too much. It's simply a good excuse to gorge ourselves and of course, like all consumerism happy capitalist nations, we will also be gorging ourselves on mostly needless items as gifts tonight into tomorrow and often injure, maim, and even kill others in the process to get the cheapest items possible that were probably made in sweatshops by people, even children, who have to work, and get little to no pay in doing so, and won't be getting a single gift for the holiday or any holiday as they are lucky to have food each meal.

So...enjoy your meal and savings and pretend to give thanks.

Photo from Wikimedia Commons

Why?

I am burdened by the horror of humanity once more. It is true that we just cannot know what's going in the minds of other people. None of this is to invoke paranoia, but fact. It's been nine months since the horrific murders of innocent first grade children took place in Connecticut. We are saddened as a nation and across the world, but because we did not know anyone involved, we forget about it. It's not that we just don't care about the parents' needless grief because we do. We just cannot possibly spend all our time mourning the deaths of people we never met before. We could not survive if we tried to mourn the deaths that occur every single day across the globe. There's an estimated 6,000 people who die every hour, which is well over a 100,000 each day. It's not not feasible to be aware and mourn everyone.
What's my point? Where am I headed? Well, let's just say some really scary people exist in this world. I'm sure we all know this and any adult who does not has clearly not been a part of civilization in their lifetime. But even with this awareness, we cannot spend our lives in fear that someone is going to harm us. We are aware and take precautions, make sure we are aware of our surroundings and all that jazz, but we can't not go out or hide in our built-in fallout shelter of paranoia with stocked food waiting to die for fear someone harming us. It's not likely that anything will happen while we are out and about living life.
However, the reminder of the threats still out there came tumbling down on me the other day when I learned of the news that my alumni elementary school had recently been a minor lock down while police searched the school. It was only local news, so few people are aware of what happened. The janitor had apparently planned on making gas bombs to go off in the cafeteria. Stomach-sinking sick. I don't care if he was joking or not, that's one disturbed way to make a joke. It's the life of innocent children we are talking about here. Thankfully he was arrested and everything was fine, but it was certainly jarring to hear.
Once again I say, no child should be dropped off at school in the morning and not come home safe in the afternoon/evening. No parent should have to fear that when they drop their child off it could be the last time they ever see them alive. School should be safe. We need to make sure it is the best we can.

Most Beautiful Songs I Know...

Just a list of some beautiful songs, ones with great meaning and often have a powerful singer:

Angels and Demons by Melissa Otero: I heard this song on Dance Moms and I was amazed I had not heard of this woman before. She has an amazing voice and it is a powerful song to me.

I Want to Know What Love is by Foreigner: This varies by individual, but I say I want to dance to this song at my wedding should I ever maybe get married...or better yet, should anyone stand me long enough to actually want me to be their wife, which probably won't happen. Oh well, song still speaks to me.

When Love Takes You In by Steven Curtis Chapman: I'm not Christian, so his music is useless to me in general, however as an advocate of legal and safe adoption to children abandoned/neglected and/or orphaned in the U.S and across the globe and against the trafficking of any child, this song is one of the best I've heard on this subject. Only problem with it is the idea that love is enough to parent these children, who have likely experienced and lived in circumstances we could imagine in our worst nightmares. PTSD is not unheard of in foster children and children in orphanages often have institutionalized behavior problems such as overeating and food hoarding and aggression. Like all children in new environments, they're going to test their boundaries and see what they can get away with as well and no, they don't have to be grateful to their adoptive parents. They never asked for their circumstances in the first place.

On a similar note,
This is to Mother You by Sinead O'Conner: Just a beautiful song and I think it fits in with adoption perfectly. Sinead is quite a powerful singer.

Woman in Chains by Tears for Fears with Oleta Adams: A sad, but powerful song with the message it is trying to tell.

Requiem for A Dream by Clint Mansell: Just a powerful song, especially when aware of what the movie is about.

Hellfire and God Help The Outcasts from the Disney movie of the Hunchback of Notre Dame: Such a powerful story for child's movie and honestly surprised they were able to make it child-like, yet incorporate such adult themes of religion and politics into the film as well. Well done Disney...the sequel is total shit on a stick though, so don't bother if you haven't seen it.

Any other songs you find beautiful and/or powerful? Ones that evoke an emotional response from you in some way? Feel free to share.

Icky, Icky, Icky

I am sick. Not sure what's going on with my body, but it has been in disarray for about 48 hours now. My neck and back are killing me. My legs feel a bit better, but I feel like I'm on the verge of developing a sinus headache and have all day. The fatigue is overwhelming and all I have done or wanted to do today is sleep. Thanks to Kaopectate, my intestines have calmed down for the time being. The rest of the issues have only popped up today. I need to feel better tomorrow because I have a lot to get done that I was unable to do today thanks to this random malaise that's taken over. I also need to be stabbed in the arms Thursday. Weekly allergy injections are so much fun.

 

Photo from Microsoft Office Online

 

It's way too early for flu season and I don't believe it's the flu I have. I think it was something I ate and my neck and back pain are from lack of exercise and too much time lying down watching movies I own or on YouTube most of the day yesterday and today. Sinus headache feeling is problem from all the allergy issues lately and exhaustion is from being ill.

*Apologies to trypanophobics and aichmophobics who may see the above photo. No harm intended.