I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan
Interpretation
The quote highlights the absurdity of seeking equality in a fundamentally patriarchal or discriminatory context.
Mary Daly's quote draws a powerful parallel between the struggles for equality faced by women and those faced by Black individuals. By comparing a woman's plea for equality in a male-dominated church to a Black person's demand for equality within the Ku Klux Klan, she underlines that such a demand is not only unreasonable but also highlights the deep-seated injustices present in these institutions. It emphasizes that true equality cannot be found in environments that are inherently oppressive and discriminatory.
In practice
This quote could be used during a women's rights rally to emphasize the need for equal rights.
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.
The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea β some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wildβthey are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.
No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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