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Dec 20, 2014
Welcome to Debate Club
• Rules of debate Club:
• Everybody talks about debate club• Everybody has the right to talk in Debate Club• Everybody’s opinion is equal at Debate Club
Feminists
They’ve got it all?
Or have they still got…
• A long way to go?
An issue as old as time itself
• Basically, the question of Women’s Rights all comes down to 2 issues:
One: The Difference!
• Men and Women are basically different
The basic difference
• They have different ways of seeing
• Different ways of behaving
• And, most importantly,
different FUNCTIONS
This all goes back to…
• Prehistoric times, when men were :
• the hunters• (nutrition = wealth)• The fighters• (strength = power)
While women were:
• Homekeepers• Child-nurturers• Cooks
• In other words… the expendable stuff
One: The difference
• Well, some of it• A lot of it, even• But not all of it
Two: the power struggle
• As we have seen, strength means power:
• Religious• Political• Economic
But there have been alternative models
Ancient, pagan cultures revered women’s powers:
• Their life-giving role
• Their connection to Nature
• The cultural cohesion they assured
They worshipped godesses
• As well as gods…..• And even above gods…
Later this was seen as a threat to the
patriarchy
• Witch-hunts and Inquisitions suppressed these alternative ideas
And put women back in their place as:
• Decorative• Inferior• Dependent• Victims!!
And that’s the way we like them
• Even with a bit of “power”
Girl-power?Really?
No witches!
Just adorable
And useful….