Why I'm a feminist.

I got thumbed down merely for saying that David was a funny guy. As if I agreed with all of David's political views, which I don't. (I'm too independent to be in anyone's political camp.) For all you know, I could have been responding sarcastically. I'm not saying I was. . . .

I dare whoever thumbed me down to send me a PM telling me why s(he) did it. Of course, I won't expect to hear from whoever did it. The thumbing down feature and the anonymous tagging feature are for cowards. I may have said this before, but I'm reminded of the level of maturity of kids in elementary and junior high: "If you speak to him, I won't be your friend!" A bunch of middle-aged and elderly people acting like children.

Does that mean you really believe in the Ham curse?

Words almost fail me at this point. I'm a 64-year-old white man who is also a Bible believer. One of the saddest, most disgusting things I've learned since I became a Christian decades ago is how so much religion was used to justify the enslavement of blacks in the antebellum U.S. and the vicious treatment of blacks under Jim Crow. As a Texan I witnessed some of it. Absolutely appalling! I could go into a lot of details, but I'll spare you a long post.

I'll just say that one of the biggest promoters of racial bigotry against blacks in this country was done by the religious right. Even Ralph Reed, the founder of the Christian Coalition has declared that "George Wallace and the Ku Klux Klan did not come from the political left." It's really not surprising that Jerry Falwell and W.A. Criswell were rabid segregationists (all the while claiming that God ordained segregation and the oppression that went along with it) until about the 1970s when it was no longer politically expedient to publicly express racist hatred against black Americans.

Incidentally, Ham wasn't even the one who was cursed. His son Canaan was cursed. The ancient curse of Genesis 9 was fulfilled in ancient times by the dispossession of the Canaanites in what we now call Palestine in the time of Joshua.

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That's good open with a joke. It just brings up pity in me. If you were right with the Lord you would understand how studied most of them questions are.

No, absolutely not! It's completely unscriptural. When I was a boy, I saw how cruel Jim Crow was; so, I hate this false doctrine with every fiber of my being.

Replying to the original post: I agree completely.

And we have another intellectual idiot.

What's a squeakybro? Sounds like a toilet brush.

The god of the bible is a male chauvinist. For this god, women are a second hand production.

There is understandable that feminists do not believe in the god of the bible, because this god from the very beginning told the first woman to be under the leadership of man, and to please him, obey him, respect him, and so forth.

Even the new testament also repeats the same words through the apostles. Women are not suppose to be priests, and sill are subjected to their husbands, so, what the husband says, that is what it rules.

Then, feminism is just a social movement outside religious parameters.

Feminism as well, has caused lots of curious reactions according to the new generations. And even when this movement has changed the behavior of societies towards women, I prefer a cute and quiet woman than a knowing all and troublemaker female. I think women are more beautiful when they are less intelligent... it's their nature...

I prefer a woman to be on my side and let me lead, not so an irrational female trying to compete with me all the time. I won't get married with a woman to fight who is the leader, because there is not such a thing in life that can work. Even the bible says it, when a person has two leaders will love one and hate the another.

Two leaders in a house or is chaos or is a continued and never ending happiness based in hypocrisy.

I still stand with the opinion given about feminism by Tobias Smollet when he consider it: " the hysteric women's crussade."

Wow that's mightly impressive there Edgar, you actually agree with every single point she made without questioning even one of them?.

There are a sure a lot of echos in this here echo chamber. Do you people not see how silly this is?

(At least one of her points is demonstrably wrong.)

Give it a rest, max. You have made all of your points again and again and they don't improve with age.

This from a man who just dittoed what Izzy and Setanta and firefly and others have all said. This is funny, in other threads the argument was that feminism was nothing more than the idea that "women are equal to men".

Yet here comes a thread with a 38 point manifesto with point ranging from the obvious to the weird. She even blamed men for a woman's body image.

And everyone chimes in, agreeing "completely" in lockstep. This thread makes my point perfectly. Feminism has an agenda that is about lot more than equality and respect.

What we have is a feed lot, plus complete distraction.

it isn't.

There is no guarantee of salvation for the intellectual. Nor is there guarantee of salvation for the stupid. So, is it a sign of wisdom to call someone an idiot?

Idiot Is a biblical term. For the unlearned.

Do you hate your parents?

ok--I didn't get it until my in laws taught it to me...I'm foreign you see. I was amazed at the idiocy!!

My mom used to buy them from the Fuller Brush man.

Feed lot, repeated.

Don't tell me it isn't. I know from toilet brushes.