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

Posted on by beckett

What Is Enlightenment (Susan Bridle): Which brings us to another question I wanted to ask you. Sally Miller Gearhart, in her article "The Future If There Is One Is 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 women whether 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.



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The entire interview (much longer than this small excerpt) is worth reading just to explore the disconnection from reality that Daly, a Boston College prof who refuses to allow males in her classroom, equates with a higher feminist consciousness. Gearhart and Daly don't specify the means by which they would drive men from the planet, but one must assume that, in order to achieve their goal of a "less violent world," oceans of blood would have to be spilled, and the heavy hand of a totalitarian state be put in place.



To: beckett

These people are sick. They want us to slaughter our unborn children, cheer for terrorists, force perversion into our culture, and now want to exterminate our species. These fiends seriously need to be committed.



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To: beckett

Just how does the stupid bitch hope to continue the human race, through cloning? Also, I suspect that the ratio would be maintained through selective abortion and euthanasia.



To: beckett

I think they are angling toward using X sperm and selective abortions. This would be augmented with cloning of greats like hitlery, babs, babs, and gloria! This whole earth mother movement is about a war of the sexes which is preordained to be a female victory.



To: EricOKC

Yeah, but in their world their side would consist of feminazis.



To: EricOKC

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



To: beckett

And they pay her money for putting out this dreck? Pitiful.



To: beckett

People are afraid to say that kind of stuff anymore. When were people not afraid to say this kind of stuff?



To: EricOKC

"Women selected for breeding must be of a highly stimulating nature...at a ratio of 10 women for every man." - Dr. Stranglove



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To: beckett



Thirteen Women and Only One Man

Remember the Bill Haley song:

To: EricOKC

What makes you think you'd be one of the lucky ones?



To: beckett

Doesn't sound like she's had much luck picking men in her past. Or, perhaps, she's beset with heterophobia.



To: beckett

Nobody listens to, or cares about, these people. They're like the shortwave nuts on the far right who rant against Jooz and black people.



To: beckett

That would prove very uninteresting for us females!



To: EricOKC

Granted, I'd be REAL tired...but REAL happy :) I'll second that! And after 15-20 years I'd be really really scared too!! LOL



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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

When were people not afraid to say this kind of stuff? I think Daly is referring to the heyday of man-hating feminism in the '70s, when such statements were commonplace among radical feminists.



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