From: "luvgenie" <luvgenie-AT-bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Harvard dowry conference -- some comments
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:53:54 -0000


Someone wrote the following

then we need an approach (approach as in a "tool" for organizing a
 >movement...) that takes into account the various interactions of
 >oppressive power structures....

What is meant by oppressive power structures?

Thinking about oppressive power structures the following comes to mind: The
church with their male only god, (although this god is born of a woman),
the prohibition of women to officiate in churches, the myth of male
superiority, the expectation of women to be domestically enslaved in that
she is expected to do most if not all the house work, equal pay and
opportunities for women in the work place, men need to look at women not as
sex objects but as their teachers and guide etc., men need to be cognizant
that any woman could be their mother, therefore they should treat them all
with utmost respect, and much more.

Women need to stop thinking in terms of making themselves sex objects
because that is how the men want them to be in order to maintain control.

Women need to plan years in advance before they have a child and be very
choosy about the father.  The father should be one of great integrity both
morally and spiritually among others sterling qualities.  

The bible myth of adam and eve should be taken out of the bible among other
thing that are degrading and derogatory to women in order that women may
have a say in who god is.  If mankind is made in the image of god, women
should also be represented as gods, just as some blacks are asking for a
black god.

Women need to know that god did not create man, it is man who created god.

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