Sexism 1

Sexism is actually racism against the female race. The female race is seen as possessing certain characteristics that are different from and threatening to the male race. The fear of women is the beginning of all wisdom. I will first begin with a critique of the American and British attitude toward women and then move on to other forms of sexism. In America and Britain, a woman must lose her "eros" in order for her to attain a high position in business or politics. Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Clinton, Samantha Powers, and even Madonna are examples of this. There is nothing distinctly female about these people. They are just like men, even in the way they speak. They have a certain charm, but they are essentially logocentric females, crossdressers. These women are barriers to entry for other women who are more traditionally female, that is possessing of both heart and mind, concerned with the family, more nurturing. Now, don't get the wrong idea here. I am not saying all women possess these characteristics. Women are a very diversified group, possessing of many different qualities. But at the same time, I have to wonder what kind of system pits the best women against the rest of the women. This is not done in France. Maybe I should move to France, but that is not what I am trying to say either. What is so threatening about "eros" in women? C.S. Lewis said that Christ is Eros and Eros encompasses love, the kind of love espoused by the term "agape." Out of love for all human kind, Christ sacrificed himself. One cannot deny the eroticism of Michelangelo's Pieta and the erotic beauty of many of the Madonnas. "Eros" has been demonized in Anglo-Saxon-American culture but Anglo-Saxon-American culture is probably the biggest purveyor of pornography. The statistics are staggering when you read about the number of Christians who look at pornography. We are a logocentric culture and we depend on logos because they are no other standards to go by since we are a multicultural superstructure. "Eros" has also been given a dirty name. When people think of sex, they think of sluts, porno-stars, etc. Sex is a dirty thing we do and the only way we can do it with a good conscience is to have a drink or do drugs and then have sex, that way we can deny responsibility. Sex is a natural happening. We do to a certain extend idolize the wife or the partner, but it is an idolization of revelation. Through love of the beloved, we come to love God more deeply. If we follow C.S. Lewis reasoning that it is better to have a Christianity of the mind and body, that sex should be just reproductive, the desire for the pleasure and only that, then you are actually devaluing women. To continue, to deny the mystical aspects of women that comes out of the grace of God through free-will is to take out the whole book of "Esther" from the Old Testament. In most sports, men are superior to women. Again, psychologically men are driven more individually by the desire for glory and self-actualization. We have a very intensely anti-social instinct that is buried deep within us that expresses itself as indifference. Academically, there are many women who have guided me through my life. But the problem here is that Anglo-Saxon American liberal women, as much as they deny it, have a maternal instinct. They see me as an adolescent Asian who needs their care. So if I really wanted to, I could accuse them of racism or even sexism. But I don't. Because no matter how much we deny it, our racial prejudices are deeply buried within us as archetypes of the soul as Carl Jung surmised. So we can spend all our time accusing each other of racism or try to understand the experiences that form these stereotypes. So what is the Anglo-American view of women and who are the ones who are critiquing it and what are their solutions? The first archtype of woman I want to address is the Greek Goddess Athena.