Tuesday, November 20, 2007

You Are Your Uterus (Video)

InsideCatholic.com provides a rhetorical update to the biblical injunction that women must be treated as 'vessels.' In the postmodern world, women are to be treated as 'boxes,' says InsideCatholic.com. Yeah, you say that now. But what will you say after women finish the little ongoing project of taking over your freakin' church?


Transcript, via Trailer Park Feminist:

SCENE: a box factory
NARRATOR: If you thought there was a small chance that a baby was hidden in a box, wouldn't you treat the box as if it held a baby, just in case?
SCENE: an ultrasound image
NARRATOR: So even if you think there's just a small chance that an unborn child is a baby, shouldn't you treat it as if it were, just in case? Something to think about.

Back at you, InsideCatholic.com:

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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