Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.
Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.
Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.
Up until now, women have depended completely upon men for their survival. You're dealing with thousands of years of history, where sexual slavery was the condition. While suddenly the laws may change, to some extent, the conditioning doesn't go away that fast.
Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.
The male establishment power structure has not really changed its attitude towards women. They did not give these rights to women out of kindness. These rights were fought for by many highly evolved women who cared about the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.
When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.
Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.
Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped to prove that the position of supremacy that they had assumed was Divine Law.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
