Since I mentioned it in my last post, I could not resist talking about this. In Mythology, you learn two things. One, Zeus is a whore. Most men will have sex with anything with a pulse; Zeus doesn't see this as a limitation. Read the non-PG stories of Greek Mythology and understanding will follow. Two, women are evil. I may be female myself, but men were given countless reasons to fear us through the centuries. In Mythology, there is Eris, Clytemnestra, Gaia, and Hera. All these women examples are from Greek Mythology. Eris was the Greek goddess of strife, who caused the Trojan War. Paris of Troy was to judge who was the most beautiful of three goddesses, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera. Aphrodite won, because she bribed to give him the love of Helen of Sparta (who was married). Clytemnestra was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (swan bestiality here). Because of the Trojan War, King Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to make winds come. Horrified, Clytemnestra and her lover killed the king upon his return. However, she was later killed by her own son. Gaia, or Mother Earth, married her own son. She bore Chronos, whom when he grew up helped Gaia to castrate his father. Hera was Zeus’s insanely jealous wife. Who can blame her? She sent Hercules into a rage that caused him to kill his wife and son, and then proceeded to persecute him. Leto and her twins, Artemis and Apollo had snakes sent after them. The mother of Dionysus, Semele was tempted to look at Zeus, which burned her and Zeus had to save the baby from the fire. She turned Io into a crow, who was another one of Zeus’s lovers. Turning against Zeus, she led a rebellion, which Hades had to save Zeus. Then Poseidon and Apollo were sentenced to build the walls of Troy. Her list goes on and on. However, there are real historical figures that were evil women. Elizabeth Bathory was the Hungarian noble, who lured hundreds of young female peasant virgins to her castle, just to bath in their blood. When her terrible deeds were discovered, she was placed under house arrest and starved. She is also called the Blood Countess. Mary the first, or Mary Tudor, or Bloody Mary, started the Inquisition in England. Thousands were burned to death. Her cousin, Jane Grey, was also put to death. Just because she wanted the throne, Mary killed many. A more recent figure is Aileen Wuornos, who worked as a prostitute. She killed seven men and was later convicted. This American serial killer got the lethal injection. I’m not saying that men aren’t evil too, but women don’t have a clean slate either. Some of us wonder why we are only seen as sex objects. I think it’s a coping reaction to us as a whole.
Wow, somebody's got unresolved self-image issues. Women are no more or less evil than men, and saying that we can justify objectifying, harassing, exploiting and abusing them (aka treating them like sex objects) because some women in some places at some points in time have done bad things is just about the most narrow-minded and childish opinion I've ever heard.
ReplyDeletePeople. People are the problem. Not women, not men, not "the youth of today", not ornery old people, not republicans, not democrats; no easily categorized group of any sort.
It is my opinion, and you are entitled to your own. However, this idea sprouted from History and my own personal experience. I know that people see differently; I encourage people, but the general problem of people sprouts from conflicts of interest and opinion. Thou shall not murder is one of the ten commandments, but that never stopped Christians and some other religions from warring with other countries, themselves, and other religions. Everyone is evil to someone else in their own way. I will bet that someone will read this and think I'm evil for it.
ReplyDeleteLook, I understand what you're trying to say regarding women as a whole being worse than the average person thinks. We are not the more fragile sex, and there are women who have done terrible things. The point that you can't seem to grasp is that you cannot take your personal judgements and use them to make blanket statements that justify further terrible acts against whichever group you decide to dislike. Take your statement that men treat women as sex objects because it's a coping mechanism against our overwhelming evil. Are you suggesting that makes it okay? And what then happens to sex crimes against women? Do they become a societal joke? Sure, the bitch got raped, but she's female, she had it coming! And hey, the dude just got out of an awful divorce with his shrew of an ex-wife, so fuck it, the guy had to cope SOMEHOW. Harassment's cool in our books too, because that secretary may not have done anything to her boss to deserve his inappropriate groping and overtly sexual comments but she's part of women as a whole, who are evil, therefore it is justified. Furthermore, your "evidence" is woefully inadequate. You've provided three examples from real life and four from mythology, which counts for just about nothing. Your anectodal evidence is also just you making generalizations based on your biased viewpoint and drawing your conclusions from there. This is not reliable proof.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd like some hard evidence about evil acts, let's look at some statistics. Violent crimes, for example, have been committed in the vast majority by men throughout history. 81.2% of violent crimes in 2009 were committed by men. Kindly follow the link to a graph and let's examine some stats. http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_33.html
Percentage of violent crimes committed by men
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: 2000 - 88.9% 2009 - 89.5%
Forcible rape: 2000 - 98.9% 2009 - 98.8%
Aggravated assault: 2000 - 80% 2009 - 78.2%
This is obviously very compelling and damning evidence. Since history is clearly demonstrating that men are a detriment to society, I would argue that it is in the nation's best interests to put in place castration policies for men, since it is their high testosterone levels that contribute to the committal of these violent acts. Male children should be closely observed in the developmental stages so we can weed out the ones who demonstrate aggressive tendencies (playing with guns or video games that depict weapon usage, watching violent movies or shows, playing aggressively with their peers [play-fighting], etc.) A preventive policy such as this would surely cause a sharp decline in the kinds of evil acts propagated by men.
The problem with this kind of thinking is that it allows for no individual variation. People will do evil deeds, this is true, but there are also people who will not, and you know what? That ratio is incredibly skewed toward the good. According to the US Census Bureau, in 2009 there were 151.4 million males living in the country. If we assume that each arrest for those 3 types of violent crime I listed count for one distinct individual, do you know what percentage of the male population was violently criminal that year? 0.15% Read that number again, because I think you need to understand this. You can make private judgements about men, or women, all you want in your own mind, you can reject all forms of female interaction in your life if you please, but you CANNOT justify harmful treatment of an entire segment of the population because you will be condemning millions of innocents in the process.