What Does Patriarchy Look Like?

What Does Patriarchy Look Like? Presented By Apostle Dr. Lee Ann B. Marino, Ph.D., D.D.

We all know we live in a patriarchal society

We all know the foundations of society are based for, by, and around men

We likewise know that women have been fighting for many years to gain an equal status in society

We speak much of patriarchy…

But what does patriarchy look like?

Let us look at examples of history’s “macho men” to find out…

THE HINDU CODE OF MANU “ In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free from subjugation.”

ARISTOTLE “ The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities – a natural defectiveness.”

TERTULLIAN “ Woman is a temple built over a sewer, the gateway to the devil. Woman, you are the devil’s doorway. You should always go in mourning and in rags.”

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO “ Any woman who acts in such a way that she cannot give birth to as many children as she is capable of, makes herself guilty of many murders.”

CONFUCIUS “ One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.”

JOHN CHRYSOSTOM “ Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.”

THE COUNCIL OF MACON, 584 Women were declared to be human by one vote according to an all-male council

MOHAMMED “ Men are superior to women.”

THOMAS AQUINAS “ Woman is defective and accidental…and misbegotten…a male gone awry…the result of some weakness in the (father’s) generative power.”

MARTIN LUTHER “ If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from child bearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing; she is there to do it.”

JOHN KNOX “ Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not rule and command him.”

SAMUEL BUTLER “ The souls of women are so small that some believe they’ve none at all.”

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE “ Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.”

JOSEPH SMITH “ Accept this doctrine [polygamy] and allow me to have as many wives as I like, along as they are all virtuous and pure.” (said to his first wife)

BRIGHAM YOUNG “ Take a plural wife or two…since this is the surest cure for a shrewdish and recalcitrant female.”

ORTHODOX JEWISH MEN PRAY… “ Blessed art thou, O Lord our God and king of the universe, that thou didst not create me a woman.”

OSCAR WILDE “ No woman is a genius; women are a decorative sex.”

GROVER CLEVELAND “ Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.”

THOMAS EDISON “ Direct thought is not an attribute of femininity. In this, women are now centuries behind men.”

BRUCE MCCONKIE “ Woman’s primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous council of her husband.”

JAMES THURBER “ A woman’s place is in the wrong.”

JAMES DOBSON “ My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.”

JERRY FALWELL “ I listen to feminists and all these radical gals – most of them are failures. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home.”

PAT ROBERTSON “ [Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.”

BILL MCCARTNEY “ Women readers, submit for the survival of our culture.”

PAT BUCHANAN “ The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.”

POPE BENEDICT XVI “ [Banning women from the priesthood] is necessary in order to protect true doctrine, to safeguard the communion and unity of the church, and to guide consciences of the faithful.”

MAY GOD INSPIRE EVERY WOMAN TO STAND AGAINST PATRIARCHY THROUGH EDUCATION AND INFORMATION. VISIT www.myspace.com/feministchristians TO LEARN MORE

What Does Patriarchy Look Like?

by Apostle Dr. Lee Ann B. Marino on Jul 17, 2008

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