I was in a conversation with a good friend (male) yesterday that reminded me of you. He wants to get into writing and his essays are philosophical, meaning of life ponderings. We were talking about his writing on the origin of man and woman and he was posing the "chicken or the egg" question against the context of Genesis in the Bible. He said woman came from man (talking about the Bible story wherein God took a rib from Adam while he slept) and he said the word woman is a wombed-man (ie woman). When I heard that I thought about you posting about women being defined by their wombs and I thought "Oh Lord, Tyr would be all *over* you right now." But then he surprised me. He said if you believe the scripture, and that woman was created from man, woman was created at the same time as man and that she dwelt within him. So man's origin and woman's origin happened at the same time, and from the same material, making them perfect equals. However, when God extracted woman from man, He gave her the womb- an extra bit of anatomy men do not have, and with it women have a higher pain tolerance and the ability to create life. My friend was saying men have seed and women have seed- that points back to the perfect equality of the sexes, but only women can bare the seed. We went on to talk about how anatomically, all people start out the same. Your body grows a bit first before gender comes along, and my friend used that to support his argument that there is perfect equality in the sexes. It was a surprising conversation. I love my religion, but I'll admit that some interpretations of Christianity can enforce women taking a secondary position to men. It was nice to talk with my friend (who's very Baptist)who had thought it out on his own and come up with this idea that is counter to the Baptist culture that is so prevalent in the South, that women are genetically and spiritually 100% equal to men, and perhaps even better than men because of the child baring ability and all that comes with that.
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment