(March 16, 2013 at 4:27 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: That's not limited to Islam. That's a problem with Abrahamic faiths. We need to blame the Jews for this. They love being blamed for shit.
Even within Abrahamic faiths, the amount of misogyny varies from one culture to the next.
Here, in the US, we have denominations like Methodists and Baptists where women can be pastors and everything but we also have denominations like Catholicism and Mormonism that pretty much tell the women they need to be barefoot and pregnant 90% of the time.
It even varies within other cultures. Look at the ancient greeks and you'll see quite a bit of variety there, too. The Spartans were far from egalitarian.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama