“I don’t think women should hold a political office because they are too moody.”

I will just let that sit for a minute…
Surprisingly this person is a female! Conventionally the girl is a Christian, just like every other human within 50 miles of my current location.
Now I sat down and thought about what would make a girl a totally sexist against her own gender? Lets take a look at some church leaders and information that has been suppressing women for 2000 years.

Church leaders and commentators, prior to the 20th century:

St. Tertullian (about 155 to 225 CE):
“Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too.
You are the Devil’s gateway: You are the unsealer of the forbidden tree: You are the first deserter of the divine law: You are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God’s image, man. On account of your desert even the Son of God had to die.”

St. Augustine of Hippo (354 to 430 CE). He wrote to a friend:
“What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still
Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman……I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children.”

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1274 CE):
“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten,
for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a
perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman
comes from a defect in the active force or from some material
indisposition, or even from some external influence.”

Martin Luther (1483 to 1546):
“If they [women] become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let
them die in childbirth, that’s why they are there.”

Let’s see if we’ve learned anything since the 20th century has passed (don’t get your hopes up):

Reformation Fellowship of the EastValley, Mesa, AZ (circa 1995)
“In the beginning God made man male and female. He made Adam first, and then made Eve from Adam’s rib. This order of creation subordinates wives to their husbands in marriage, and women to men in the church. As an act of submission to their Creator women are commanded to submit to their husbands and to male leadership in the church. Women are not allowed to teach or have authority over men in any formal capacity in the church.”

Pope John Paul II (1995)
“Woman’s identity cannot consist in being a copy of man, since she is
endowed with her own qualities and prerogatives, which give her a
particular uniqueness that is always to be fostered and encouraged… To all in our age who offer selfish models for affirming the feminine
personality, the luminous and holy figure of the Lord’s Mother shows how only by self-giving and self-forgetfulness towards others is it possible to attain authentic fulfillment of the divine plan for one’s own life.”

Jerry Falwell
“Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them,
and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who
have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of
feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That’s the
bottom line.”

The Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (1997)
“…God, by creating Adam first (Gen. 2:18; 1 Cor. 11:8) and also by
creating woman for man (Gen. 2:18,20,22; 1 Cor. 11:9), has set the
gender-based role and responsibility of males in the most basic unit of
society (the family) to be that of leader, provider and self-sacrificial
protector (also cf. Eph. 5:25; 1 Peter 3:7), and likewise has set the
gender-based role and responsibility of females to be that of help and
nurture (Gen. 2:18) and life-giving (Gen. 3:20) under male leadership
and protection (cf. 1 Peter 3:7)…”

Randall Terry, head of Operation Rescue
“…make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in
submission, raising kids for the glory of God.”
So there you have it. According to these beliefs, women are the reason for all the suffering in the world. Women ruined men! If it weren’t so sad it would be laughable. The facts are clear, there are still many many people who still believe this misogynous crap.

Now here’s a quote from a pamphlet entitled “Why women need freedom from religion,”
“The various Christian churches fought tooth and nail against the
advancement of women, opposing everything from women’s right to speak in public, to the use of anesthesia in childbirth…and woman’s suffrage. Today the most organized and formidable opponent of women’s social, economic and sexual rights remains organized religion. Religionists defeated the Equal Rights Amendment.”

To believe that a woman should submit to her husband because a book says she should… think about that. Fallacious logic, argument by authority. My least favorite of all logical fallacies. Even if you believe that a god created us, why would that god decide that a woman is a second-class creation that is required to do what the other gender requires?

Teresa, the banned lesbian said:

“I was harassed by several players, ‘chased’ to different maps/games to get away from their harassment. They followed me into the games and told all the other players to turn me in because they didn’t want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap.”

Teresa attempted to contact Microsoft about her harassment and that’s when she got suspended. Their reasoning was that other players found her sexual orientation “offensive.” It’s also Microsoft’s policy to not allow players to make references to their orientation.

The kids! Right… because the kids on Xbox Live are innocent and cannot comprehend sexual orientation. Well if that isn’t bullshit then I am a fundamentalist Muslim. I cannot count the number of inappropriate things that have been said to me by middle school boys while playing online games. I don’t even play on Xbox Live. My solution is to simply kill them many times in the game and do other annoying things to make them leave, or if you can, kick them out of the game. If these kids are not old enough to understand sexual orientation then they should not be gaming online with adults.

Teresa was not the only one who has been suspended for sexual orientation reasons. You can also be suspended if your actual name is “sexually offensive.”

What are your thoughts on this?

As for this blog I hope to use it to educate people on science and skepticism. I will be calling shenanigans on alternative medicine, debunking bullshit conspiracies, and promoting good discussion.

I humbly welcome you all to my journey on my H.M.S. Beagle of life.