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myOtaku.com: X Shadowme X

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

I really, really don't like this dude in my women's studies class right now.

We have an assignment to study how religion affects women in this country and he goes off on this tangent about how all the other denominations of Christianity are so superior to Catholicism because all the Church ever does is marginalize and oppress women and when I began to speak up, I couldn't get a word in edge-wise.

I wanted to be like, "Um, don't look now, O Thirteenth Apostle, but by talking over and shutting out everything I say, you're basically re-enacting the situation your faith supposedly makes you above."

I know the Church has a bad rep and history, and I know people have a right to disaprove and dissent, but how is that a viable excuse to shit all over my feelings and the feelings of other practicing Catholics?

Besides, if not for Catholicism, all other branches of Christianity wouldn't even exist.

And just because something can be used to oppress a group of people doesn't mean it should it can't also be used empower them. Look up Anna Julia Cooper. Look up Christine de Pizan.

They observed how well Jesus treated women and womens roles throughout the Gospels and were inspired by that to lobby for the education, enlightenment, safety, and respect of women.

Just because we believe that women are typically--keyword TYPICALLY--suited to different roles than men does not mean we believe they are less than men.

Have some/most of us believed that in the past? Yes. But so did Jews and Hindu's.

Things are changing. I hope they continue to change.
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~Belinda
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