The Subjection of the Female Body to the Male Ego

[Leonardo17]

This is something that can work both ways actually.
 
On one end you have cultures in which wear very uncomfortable clothes and accessories like East-Asian women of the 19th century and the Geisha culture that still lives on today, just to please the “man” who is simply seen as superior to the woman and thus must be satisfied by the woman in every way because it is just her duty to do so.
 
One other extreme in this spectrum is the extreme sexualization of the young female teenager’s body. In which parents feel the need to use phrases like “you can’t go out unless you put some clothes one” to their daughters. That is also seen as a worrisome situation because while sexuality is a huge part of any teenagers life it certainly should not be the only or even the number one priority in the life of any young adult in this world.
 
So you have some (or most religions) intervening in this area of our lives, trying to put limits to such approaches in both younger and older individuals, Islam is currently showing us how easy it is to end up in a new type of extreme, becoming fanatical about everything and once again subjecting the female body to the wishes and whims of (mostly) some elderly male individuals:
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran...45981.html
 
The scientific reality is actually showing us the futility of all of these approaches. Technically, these bodies are our tools. There are male and female bodies that are there so that we keep having bodies after the death of individuals (Nature love species, not individuals). Sex is a feature of these bodies but it’s not the reason for the existence nor the primary goal of the existence of these bodies. So it doesn’t matter which kind of body you have. It’s there to serve a purpose, with that body you can go to places, you can climb the Everest, find a cure to leprosy, study ancient civilization, Join NASA’s astronaut program… It’s mainly here as a vehicle. We have bodies so we can live in this world. That’s nature’s intention.
 
So I think everybody needs to rethink some of the more “traditional” approaches, try to see what purpose they served some 50, 100 or 2000 years ago and decide whether it is worth to sow social divisions and gender discrimination in a way that is based on these approaches.
 
By the way: I don’t believe that anybody who is unable to do this type of self-reflection can still claim to be part of any religious or spiritual system in our age. I think that this type of narrow mindedness does not belong to this century (not even in a religious setting of any kind).