RIP Mary Daly
You never hear about people like Mary Daly passing away in the mainstream media, because they're too busy talking about terrorists attaching explosives to their taint or politicians proclaiming they won't seek re-election this year (if only the rest of them would follow suit and be the good little lemmings they are ... cliffs ahoy!), but we lost a radical feminist thinker on Sunday.
Mary Daly if you don't know was a Positively Revolting Hag; a Feminist Pirate who lived on the edge of the patriarchy (which she called the world religion, then later the real terrorists the world needed to go to war against) and reclaimed bits of knowledge the patriarchy had stolen from Wimmin everywhere. She believed that the planet was doomed unless most of the men on the planet were eliminated, which she referred to as "decontamination" in a magazine interview done shortly after her second to last book, Quintessence was published.
Amazon Grace, her last book has to be my favorite. She continued where she left off with Quintessence by going back to Lost and Found Continent. A telepathic brontosaurus showed up for a while, and the author then had a series of long conversations with 19th century feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage. In the Radical Feminist utopia she describes in these books, the patriarchy is gone, men have been reduced to "manageable" numbers, and all of the confines of evil men have been eliminated. Wimmin can now move through time as they please (hence how telepathic dinosaurs show up) and men are no longer needed for reproduction.
Dare to dream right? And yes I think Mary Daly had every right to dream of her perfect world. It's avante garde thinkers like her who push to the extremes and clear the way for the rest of us. Do I think there will ever be a time when Gaia will aid her human and animal sisters and purge the world of the contaminant known as men, allowing them to create the perfect society the world is supposed to be? Nah, probably not ... but she makes you think what if, and people who can do that are special. So long sister, and thanks.
Mary Daly if you don't know was a Positively Revolting Hag; a Feminist Pirate who lived on the edge of the patriarchy (which she called the world religion, then later the real terrorists the world needed to go to war against) and reclaimed bits of knowledge the patriarchy had stolen from Wimmin everywhere. She believed that the planet was doomed unless most of the men on the planet were eliminated, which she referred to as "decontamination" in a magazine interview done shortly after her second to last book, Quintessence was published.
Amazon Grace, her last book has to be my favorite. She continued where she left off with Quintessence by going back to Lost and Found Continent. A telepathic brontosaurus showed up for a while, and the author then had a series of long conversations with 19th century feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage. In the Radical Feminist utopia she describes in these books, the patriarchy is gone, men have been reduced to "manageable" numbers, and all of the confines of evil men have been eliminated. Wimmin can now move through time as they please (hence how telepathic dinosaurs show up) and men are no longer needed for reproduction.
Dare to dream right? And yes I think Mary Daly had every right to dream of her perfect world. It's avante garde thinkers like her who push to the extremes and clear the way for the rest of us. Do I think there will ever be a time when Gaia will aid her human and animal sisters and purge the world of the contaminant known as men, allowing them to create the perfect society the world is supposed to be? Nah, probably not ... but she makes you think what if, and people who can do that are special. So long sister, and thanks.