Annie Littlewolf
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Elle, there is SO much to be said about patriarchy…..and you said it well! I’m currently reading “When God Was A Woman” by Merlin Stone — and combing what I am learning there, with ancient Hebrew history, am learning all SORTS of things about how men gained the so-called “upper hand”.

OTOH, not long after I married my husband, he (who majored in History and Political Science) told me that one of his professors stated: “Vaginas rule the world.” And after I stopped laughing hysterically, he looked at me like I was crazy. He agreed. I asked for some PROOF. And he hemmed and hawed and said “well, like there was Catherine the Great, there were the Queens of England, and oh yeah, Cleopatra.” And I said compared to uh, let’s say “the KINGs of England who divorced their wives or had them beheaded because they didn’t produce male heirs, The Czars of Russia, Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Tito, ALL of the US Presidents — including one who used the atomic bomb; most all US Supreme Court Justices, and need I go on?” And he said “well, there WERE women soliders too.”

Yep.

Gotta say, that was a new one on me. I told him that IF his professor said that, it was a professor who had a problem with women.

Need look no further today, even, in the Catholic Church, amidst all the recent scandals, the Pope called for the “intervention of Mary” — yep, leave it women to clean up the messes made by men.

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