Humanity Should be 10% Male 90% Female (BC Prof Mary Daly)

What Is Enlightenment? (Issue 16) ^ | Fall/Winter 2002 | Susan Bridle

[beckett]

What Is Enlightenment (Susan Bridle): Which brings us to another question I wanted to ask you. Sally Miller Gearhart, in her article "The FutureIf There Is OneIs Female" writes: "At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race." What do you think about this statement?

Mary Daly: I think it's not a bad idea at all. If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. People are afraid to say that kind of stuff anymore.

WIE: Yes. I find myself now thinking that's a bit shocking.

MD: Well, it's shocking that it would be shocking.

WIE: So it doesn't sound like your vision of a separate nation for women is something you see as an interim stage that would eventually lead to men and women living together in true equality.

MD: No. That's a very old question. I answered that to audiences twenty-five, thirty years ago. I just don't think that way. See, right now, I would be totally joyous to have a great community of womenwhether men are somewhere out on the periphery or not. I don't have this goal of: "Oh, then we can all get together again!" That doesn't seem to be a very promising future. So why would I think about it? I think it's pretty evident that men are not central to my thought.

WIE: I have one last question. At the beginning of this interview, you spoke about the experience of being deeply at one with that which animates all of life. I wanted to ask you what you think about the possibility of becoming identified with that as who one ultimately is, having that as one's ultimate resting place, or ground, so to speak, and where one's gender would no longer be a primary reference point.

MD: I don't know if that has anything to do with my experience. I have my own experience of oneness. Sometimes I have ecstasy and a kind of active repose in connection with nature. It's tremendous. But I never forget that I'm a woman, because this is me. I know who I am. I have Female integrity.

[glory]

It's more than that. I doubt that most of these women have lived their life without at least some male interest. I think a lot are bitter because instead of holding on tight to the decent, maybe even attractive man that showed an interest when they at least had youth in their favor, they instead shunned him, only to find out that ugly and old(because now they aren't even fertile is not a good place to be if you are just BEGINNING a relationship, now add BITTER to that and there isn't any self loving man that would touch her because she doesn't even have personality going for her at that point. These women are and have always been their own worse enemy and instead blame it on men or attractive women, hell for that matter, involved or married women who chose a normal life with a man over waiting until their feminist dream was fulfilled to find someone.
I've always said that old feminists have nothing but other old feminists to covort with and it's the reason why the majority are lesbians and overtly man-hating hags.

[glory]

That answers my question! thanks

[glory]

Man, she just looks like your average grandma, save a little more masculine in the dress. What the hell happened to her to make her such a man-hating devil? I know maybe nothing, but she surely is in the grip of Satan himself for the crap she preaches.

[glory]

AGREED!

[glory]

The 10% of men better be filthy rich if they want her looking like that, after all didn't Miss K say that most couldn't afford her?

[Future Snake Eater]

See, right now, I would be totally joyous to have a great community of women

Oh, good call. Who wouldn't want a nation/community constantly discussing their monthly cycles while knitting sweaters for their cats?

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[The Raven]

>>who refuses to allow males in her classroom,

Not sure I'd want to in there.

[Cloud William]

A ten to one ratio would put our services at a premium, wouldn't it?

Hmmm... ever seen the film "A Boy And His Dog"? Yikes.

[Grampa7030]

Since 90% of crime is caused by males, the crime rate would certainly decline.

Maybe. But 90 per cent of the toilets are clogged by women. It will be a bonanza for the plumbing industry. There will be other ecological changes as well. With no one to kill the spiders, it won't be long until spiders ruled the world. And let's not get into the whole "take out the garbage" thing.

Of course, I would sell my Electric Football stock as no woman has ever played that game. It is one of the last truly male only games in existence.

[Slyfox]

Any 'ideal' society Daly might create without males would quickly (one or two generations) establish its own male pole (if you'll pardon the expression) where butch femmes like Daly would compete fiercely to seize the top spots.

Didn't something similar to that happen during the Clinton administration when a number of top spots went to women without considering if the females were even qualified?

[pray4liberty]

Eric, you wouldn't be saying that, if they all looked like ...Mary Daly!

[John Lenin]

At least she's honest about it.

[Phaedrus]

Have you noticed that no matter how much hate-filled, bitter bilge comes out of the mouths of Liberal academics, they always smile? It must be genetic.

[cynicom]

Where would the "ugly" women find a man?????

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I'm pretty sure that between the both of us, we've described what makes the man hating feminist tick.

[Rytwyng]

Only 9 women to every man? Why not go even further? How about 72 virgins for every man? Oh, wait, that idea's already been tried. Funny how these psychos keep coming up with the same demented themes, century after century.

[HitmanLV]

You know, if Hugh Heffner made such an observation, it would be war!!!! :-)

[constable tom]

Beautiful.

"Mein Feurer: I can walk!"

[wayoverontheright]

Humanity Should be 10% Male 90% Female (BC Prof Mary Daly)

Humanity would then become.....Womanity?