Ugly Anna wrote:
Sexism in the Torah
Sexism is quite rampant in the Torah, considering the Hebrews were
once a very chauvinistic society when it was written. As a feminist,
I find it my duty to site the following verses and remind fellow women
of the sexist pig they are told to worship.
The courtesy of a man opening a door for a woman is a form a sexism.
Sexism is not necessarily negative.
I can not possibly list
all of the injustices that the Torah mentions.
The Torah does not teach injustice. The alleged injustice is due to
mistranslation, or misunderstanding or misrepresentation of context.
Everything from the
story of Lilith (who was booted out of Eden for having dominant sex
with Adam)
False.
to how women are blamed for the fall from grace.
Only Eve was blamed, and she was only not entirely responsible.
I had to
settle for merely presenting a sample list as of right now and I shall
add more verses as I thumb threw the Pentateuch a second time. In the
mean while, please feel free to utilize anything you see here.
Genesis 3:16 Says that all women must suffer great pains during child
birth due to Eve eating the fruit of knowledge.
False. The punshment only applied to Eve.
(As if it is somehow
just that humans should pay for their ancestor's sins nor is a woman
dying in labor some how befitting of a crime she did not commit.) The
verse finishes of by saying a husband shall "rule" over his woman,
stripping us off all power in between the sexes.
This does not apply to all women.
Genesis 19:8 Tells of a man named Lot who offers his daughters to a
crowd of would be angel rapers.
Jasher describes the situation Lot was faced with. It wasn't pretty.
Later, Lot impregnates his own
daughters
His daughters initiated the event.
after God kills his wife for simply looking back at the
remains of her city.
The cause of her death isn't stated. Job was warned not to look back.
Genesis 38:16-24 Tells a very interesting story of a man named Judah
whom lived with his widowed daughter in law. His daughter in law was
grieving and wearing the veils of mourning which Judah (a rather
stupid man) mistook for the clothing of a prostitute. He ended up
impregnating his daughter in law and she left the city. On a later
date Judah sees the young woman again and demanded she be burned for
being a prostitute (I like how only the woman is punished when THEY
BOTH engaged in the sexual act). It wasn't until Judah recognized the
woman as his daughter in law and she was with his child, that he
decided not to kill her. Basically, Judah can commit incest, use a
prostitute (in his mistaken perception), and impregnate a MUCH younger
woman, yet he thinks she is the one deserving of death.
He admitted his harsh attitude when he said "she is more righteous than
I"
Exodus 21:3-4 Says that if a male slave is given a wife by his master
(regardless of how long they are wed, how much they love each other or
if they have kids) he can not leave servanthood with his wife or
children. The woman and children are merely property of the master and
their personal happiness or sanctity of family doesn't matter.
It's a property law. Slaves are property.
Exodus 21:7 God not only sanctions selling ones daughter into slavery,
but he also gives out laws on how it should be done.
Modern slaves do not have such protection.
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