are her 5000 year old history of being subjugated by the patriarchy. abused, enslaved and owned by men, conditioned to be passive and obedient, and told she is the weaker, lesser, and evil sex, unable to be educated or vote, or own or inherit property, her lesser status decreed as God’s will, substantiated by both the Koran and the New Testament in...
Read More“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Read Morearab women and me!
When I read Nawal El Saadawi’s description of what the patriarchy does to arabic women, I found that my experience growing up felt quite similar. She writes, “The education that a female child receives in Arab society is a series of continuous warnings about things that are suppose to be harmful, forbidden, shameful or outlawed by religion. The child...
Read MorePat Schroeder in My Life in Politics asks “why can’t there be as much excitement about the growth of people as about the growth of profits?”.
Read MoreTo dominate women, is to stop the rain. To stop the rain, is to make the earth dry. No flowers can bloom here! If no woman can fly. I wrote this the other day when doing research on Female Genital Mutilation.
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