Socrates said that if women achieve equal status with men — e.g., political and social — women will immediately become superior, presumedly, because of superior natural attributes and women’s role in procreation of humankind. Women are the only force on earth powerful enough to navigate unborn spirits onto this planet.
Perhaps fear of the potential for women superiority is the reason American men throughout history have sought to define women as inferior, with lesser value, and to embed that idiotic concept across society to get men, and women, to act on that deceitfulness.
When a defined group, e.g., women, has been fully deceived – politically, psychologically, spiritually and economically — for centuries, and the deception has been buttressed by either fear or by receipt of rewards, the group will not gain its full freedom for many years even after restrictions have been drastically reduced or even eliminated.
The most effective means of suppressing, oppressing, and exploiting a people is to convince them that they have no power; that there is nothing they can do to improve their condition.
Too many people who have been effectively deceived and find out often rationalize their condition, count it as beneficent, and resist the most rationally and factually based counter arguments.
This tragic situation as pertains to American women, in large measure, was caused by the institutionalization of human depravity and false religious philosophy, not by the laws of nature.
The most powerful cultural influences that deprived women of equal dignity and respect were fostered by two Biblical concepts — Original Sin and Male Superiority.
Original Sin was not alluded to until the second century and Male Superiority was introduced in the fourth century. Men skewed Holy Scriptures to perpetrate and perpetuate male superiority within the religious hierarchy, which, unfortunately, found its way into secular manifestations. Misogyny encompasses both concepts. Male supremacy linked ALL men across all other demographic categories — to wit: Black men, white men, poor men and rich men could subjugate women with religious sanction.
Misogyny has been manifested against women in numerous ways, including discrimination, denigration, violence,