Why would women want to join a Religion?

[psychoslice]

Psycho, do you actually, in reality, have a swastika tattooed on your dick or elsewhere on your bod?

Yes I do, I hope your not going to start on me now, because quite frankly I've had a gut full.

[LastPoet]

You forgot the backslash, love

Editing posts on the mobile is not that easy And it's a forward slash :-P

[Losty]

Psycho, do you actually, in reality, have a swastika tattooed on your dick or elsewhere on your bod?

There's an image of the arm swatstica in the members photo thread.

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You forgot the backslash, love

Editing posts on the mobile is not that easy And it's a forward slash :-P

I know I'm always on mobile. Just trying to help

[rexbeccarox]

Psycho, do you actually, in reality, have a swastika tattooed on your dick or elsewhere on your bod?

Yes I do, I hope your not going to start on me now, because quite frankly I've had a gut full.

It's "you're", and quite frankly, I've also had a gut-full. The fact that you have unapologetic swastikas on your body makes me hope your nap lasts so long you never show up here again. Maybe you're stupid; maybe you're a *rebel* I don't really give a shit beyond the fact that it would be nice if you ever learned from anything, but you don't. You're a problem, psycho, and I wish you could recognize it. Unfortunately, you're always going to be ok with yourself as you are: a bigoted shell of a human masquerading as a person.

[psychoslice]

Yes I do, I hope your not going to start on me now, because quite frankly I've had a gut full.

It's "you're", and quite frankly, I've also had a gut-full. The fact that you have unapologetic swastikas on your body makes me hope your nap lasts so long you never show up here again. Maybe you're stupid; maybe you're a *rebel* I don't really give a shit beyond the fact that it would be nice if you ever learned from anything, but you don't. You're a problem, psycho, and I wish you could recognize it. Unfortunately, you're always going to be ok with yourself as you are: a bigoted shell of a human masquerading as a person.

You poor thing, do you really think I care what you think ?.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Thread is closed pending staff decision.

Pandæmonium

[Jackalope]

Thread reopened.

Keep it civil - and that includes spilling over into other threads. Don't be the first to break the peace.

[Nope]

Actually, the question as to why women would join a religion is a good one and I hope that we can get the thread back to the original subject. I think that culturally women have often been programmed to let others think for them. Lots of women overcome this conditioning, of course, but it is still there. Religion is the ultimate form of control over someone's life.

Perhaps religion offered women some power also. A nun could aspire to head an abbey and maybe influence the men around her without having to worry about being forced into marriage. I am sure that there are other instances of how women could use religion to provide safety and power.

Religion also offers a community and safety net for people who might be in a vulnerable position. Women, because of their smaller size, have often been in positions of less power than men. It makes sense to join a church or other religious institution

I honestly believe that as women gain more power and equality worldwide with men and no longer have to fear violence for wearing the wrong shirt or smiling at the wrong man, than there will be a mass exodus of women from religion.

[FatAndFaithless]

I'm obviously not speaking from experience, but I think religion can be offered as a 'justification' or a 'feel-better explanation' for certain inequalities in a society towards women. For example, if a woman grows up in a community in which females are strictly relegated to the kitchen and bedroom, any qualms a young woman might have can be smoothed over with an early enough installation of the "It's not oppression, you're still equal to men, you just have a different role as defined by <insert holy book>" explanation. Having a way to explain the unequal state of the sexes instead of realizing that it is simply unjust and unequal and oppressive could be very appealing to someone in the oppressed group (in this case women).

[robvalue]

I hadn't thought of it that way.

Just when you think you can't hate religion any more...