[Vision2020] Why doesn't the Sisterhood learn to shoot?

[Ted Moffett]

Don, et. al.

Speaking of those "blinders" ... did you take them off?  Or is this more 
devils advocacy?

So women who were raised in and married in a fundamentalist Christian 
religion, are supposed to, according to you:
"...organize, take over and change the rules.  Or change sects.  Or start 
their own sect.  Or stop whining..."   Right!  They then face possible 
divorce from their husbands, ostracism from the community they have called 
home, and rejection from the God they sincerely believe is the true God who 
has ordered through the divine word of the Bible that women are to be 
obedient to their husbands.  Consider the Southern Baptists, for an example 
of this approach.

The options you outline are easy to advocate, difficult to practice.

Also consider Catholicism.  You can forget the "take over and change the 
rules" possibility.  When do you think the Pope will be a women?  Or that 
women will be doing Mass?  Patriarchy at it's most institutionalized!

And it's easy to say but much more difficult to tell someone to abandon 
their faith.

As far as "whining" goes, many of these women DON'T WHINE.  But that does 
NOT mean that men are not a factor in the social forces involved in 
influencing these women to neglect competency in self defense.  And that 
these same men do not tell these same women that they will defend them, 
don't worry darling!

This is all I was saying, stating what is a sociological fact, that you 
seemed to overlook:  men actively are involved in influencing many women to 
be helpless and dependent, and not only via the influence of male dominated 
religion.  How many tough macho men just dig defending their smaller weaker 
women friends, and tell them as much?

Are you going to assert that men to not engage in these behaviors?

The flip side of this psychology involves the opposite behavior of men 
defending "helpless" women, but often is oriented toward again inducing 
helplessness and powerlessness: the shocking number of women who face 
physical violence from men, and if they fight back they just get it worse.  
Are you aware of the rates of violent rape and domestic violence against 
women in America?  And that much of this violence does induce a psychology 
of helplessness?  Oh, I forgot, women are all expected to be super women 
karate weapons experts and kick ass, I take it?  The military solution is 
just what America's families need to solve the problems of domestic violence 
against women.  Give me a break...

Ted

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