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Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly






Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly

  • The fact is that we live in a profoundly anti-female society, a misogynistic "civilization" in which men collectively victimize women, attacking us as personifications of their own paranoid fears, as The Enemy.
  • Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly

    They are my Pirate's battle cry and a wake-up call for women who I want to hear.

    Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly

    In order to invert strategies that will be big and bold enough for the next millennium, it is crucial that women share our experiences: the chances we have taken and the choices that have kept us alive. Second, we must Smuggle back to other women our Plundered treasures. First, it is necessary to Plunder - that is, righteously rip off - gems of knowledge that the patriarchs have stolen from us. Women who are Pirates in a phallocentric society are involved in a complex operation.Patriarchy is the homeland of males it is Father Land and men are its agents.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.Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.Courage is like - it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts.Courage to be is the key to the revelatory power of the feminist revolution.so there can be a survival of consciousness, a survival of biological and spiritual integrity, intellectual integrity. All of that is stifling diversity and integrity, and so what I'm really working for is critical mass, a critical mass of feminists, ecologists. . . What I'm trying to do right now is wake women and others up to the right-wing backlash - the converging of conservative Catholicism and fundamentalism and all the rest, together with biotechnology, nectech.The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.








    Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly