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Stunning admission.
I agree.
Go get em Jimmy!.
He’s spot on with his analysis, but it is shocking because I’ve always heard he is a very religious man.
Jimmy Carter has been evolving away from his Southern Baptist origins for at least 20 years — basically, in the same direction I did….
American shia muslims conference men/women in two groups.one male speaker calling US gov’t satanic.Another group that should be deported back to their shithole countries.If you think USA is so immoral don’t come here.
Carter says this has never been publicly discussed. Well, not by men, no. It simply astounds me that no men seem to have made the connection before. Religions are the superstitions of ancient cultures, and the texts and practices all promote the cultural mores of the times. Women were treated as nothing more that tentkeepers, cooks, and childbearers. We still see this in all of the less enlightened cultures of the world, the Middle East being the example that comes most readily to mind. When the world was primitive enough that brawn mattered more than brains, domination of the physically strong was understandable. But a culture that cannot change with the times, cannot understand that women have so much to offer a society, are doomed to eventual extinction.
Of course, if a person is born female they should not be denied any right due any other human.
But, my question would be, since we are on the cutting edge of new human rights, how is it all panning out? Well, we can start with a fifty percent divorce rate. And the statistics also show that most divorce judges believe that any children of the union belong with the mother, and that the father owes a fantastic amount of money to her each month, for which she never has to account as spent on the children. Happy days in enlightened land!!!
Some women really want to stay at home. This, of course, implies they are caring for the home, shopping for bargains, stretching the family money, when done right, it can work out very well. Yet, some women don’t see the connection. Something more like, “I have a slot B and you want to put Tab A into it, and as long as I allow it, my rent is paid.”
My point is, that as injust as the backward societies’ ideas are about relationships with men and women, before the self righteous assholes come forward and start pointing fingers, and promising how good things can be, first let them explain how bad things have become.
Maybe the moral is, “don’t fuck with something you don’t understand”.
NeoWolfe
or someone?
I think a big part of the problem is that women still aren’t treated equally with men. It wasn’t that long ago that they won the right to vote and they’re still discriminated against in the workplace. Women were treated as second-class citizens for a long time; it’s going to take awhile to right the ship.
Lao,
You are probably right, but, sweeping change always results in unintended consequences. Like, if you want to make fuel out of corn, get ready for higher corn prices. Everything we do upsets a delicate balance. Send money to heaven, there’ll be hell to pay.
NeoWolfe
I like Carter, but he of all people should know that sex discrimination is a main function of religion, and has been since the decline of paganist god/goddess style systems.
I’m glad he made the statement, but I’m not impressed.