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In reply to the discussion: The Big Picture is never acknowledged [View all]Sky Jewels
(7,224 posts)The selfishness, entitlement, and overriding urge to control and oppress females are truly astonishing.
Patriarchal Christian institutions like the Catholic Church have been particularly egregious examples of organizations that push male supremacy above all else. The RCC has conducted a reign of terror against women for centuries, and those efforts continue unabated. [Why any woman would continue to go along with that bullshit and keep putting her butt in the pew and her dollar in the collection plate is beyond me, but that's another issue.] Most of the SCOTUS assholes who overturned Roe are Opus Die nutjobs. Baptists, Mormons, etc. also treat women like shit. Islam is another egregious women-despising-and-oppressing institution, but its influence on the U.S. is obviously much less than the Christian mythologies. All of these dumb Bronze/Iron Age fictions give the good roles exclusively to male characters (God, Jesus, Muhammad, etc.). Only supernatural beings that have a penis are said to have any real power or magical abilities.
My opinion of the male gender as a whole, as an abstract generality ... well, I won't even say it. I know it's "not all men." But it's a shitload of them.