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.

[paltz]

I recall a recent article posted here...(can't remember the title) that noted the dating and marriage scene for men in China was rather bleak and Women there had the pick of the litter given the lopsided male to female ratio...and we all know why.

[Mr. Mojo]

"So it doesn't sound like your vision of a separate nation for women is something you see as an interim stage" - Interviewer

A separate nation for lesbians - at least angry, bitter, ugly lesbians like Ms. Daly - wouldn't be a bad idea. ....As long as it's nowhere near the U.S.

[Fintan]

Sure. Then you'd end up with this...

[Paul Atreides]

Feminazis are bitter because normal women like men.

[Paul Atreides]

[BuddhaBoy]

Can you imagine Kim Gandy's screeching when she got kicked out of the bomb shelter?

LOL!

Dont forget Rush Limbaugh's 24th Undeniable Fact of Life;

"Feminism was created to allow ugly women access to the mainstream of society".

Translation:

Without Feminism, ugly, angry lesbians would be relegated to silent existance caring for forgotten people in mental hospitals, and owning dozens of stray cats. They would never be listened to, never taken seriously, and never photographed.

[Hacksaw]

And yet a Catholic College hired her to teach. Another embarassment to my religion. What is it with these Cath-o-crats? They seem intent on killing the Church of Rome piece by piece.

I am far more worried about my church letting these people in than the most anti Catholic Protestant.

[BuddhaBoy]

A separate nation for lesbians - at least angry, bitter, ugly lesbians like Ms. Daly - wouldn't be a bad idea. ....As long as it's nowhere near the U.S.

Maybe we could place it in the 38th Parallel between North and South Korea?

Neither side would dare breech THAT border!

[rivercat]

She looks like Dennis Hastert! (poor Dennis!)

[Hacksaw]

This is a woman only OneParticularHarbour could love :)

[Mr. Mojo]

I must confess that you have a most excellent idea.

[Paul Atreides]

I am not Catholic but I honestly believe there are moles in the Catholic Church whose sole intent is to destroy it. The same goes for the Boy Scouts.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Hello ..... hello ..... I know the markets are closed today, but first thing in the morning buy all the Wrecker and Towing Service stock you can get your hands on!!!

[DugwayDuke]

And, just how long do you think your "honey-doo" list would be with 10 wives? Or, how long it would be before you went stark raving mad living with 10 women? Can you imagine how difficult it would be to find just one quiet place?

I understand the Chinese pictogram for "trouble" is the pictogram for a "house" containing two "women" pictograms. That should give you a clue.

Of course, it should also give this clueless prof a clue that a world run by women would probably be even more trouble filled. Just watch the cat fights when a group of women gather.

[Jeff Chandler]

Of course they'd need to have 10% of the population to be men... to rule the women!

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[kitkat]

***Or, perhaps,
she's beset with heterophobia.***

I love your word, "heterophobia." "Homophobic" has been used so much that we need a word to counteract it. Can I steal your word? Can we get Rush to use it?

[HighWheeler]

You Bas***d!!

Showing those revolting, naseating, wretched pictures before my Thanksgiving dinner. As it is because of you, I can barely keep down breakfast right now.