Scaredy Cat

I get it.  Do you?

Many, many men are terrified.  Scared.  Wetting their pants in panic.

If women continue to take control of their bodies (only getting pregnant when they are ready and willing), continue learning and doing many things skillfully and competently, and speak out, the scaredy cat men are afraid that the whole house of cards built on illusion and guilt will blow away in the winds of change.

The Vatican and many American bishops have taken the majority of women in religious vocations in the Roman Catholic church to task for their perceived failure to shut up and be submissive.  These women who help the poor, educate all sorts of kids and generally keep the church somewhat relevant (to God, if not to the scaredy-cat males) are not backing down.  It might be that they trust God more than they trust the male hierarchy of the church.

Men running for office seek to dis-empower women by refusing them choice, refusing to believe rape is rape, eliminating statutory rape as an exemption from women's rights, and generally verbally and practically keeping women "pregnant in the summer" and "barefoot in the winter".

It should never have been allowed in any historial period, and reverting to it now in the name of religion is probably blasphemy and deserving of damnation.  The notion that God made "man", meaning humans, in his or her own image -- male and female created he them -- equally but different -- does not need to put fear in any man's bowels.  That it does may be the best argument against evolution, at least of humans, going.

I get it.  Women are different, in mental, spiritual and physical ways.  That means men are different as well.  Different is O.K. with God.

Not so much with most right-wing scaredy-cats.

What do you think?  Do you "get it"?  Leave a comment and let us know.