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Not sure why you were downvoted. I think you made an interesting point that i hadn't considered. You said it's your "pet theory" and people don't have to agree
by sidmitra 8y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. I think you made an interesting point that i hadn't considered. You said it's your "pet theory" and people don't have to agree with it or provide counter facts. I would rather infer that it was probably to protect others around her from the so called "infection" rather than the woman herself. Either way doesn't preclude the fact that religion and societal structures(and just all around ignorance) have to share the majority of the blame here.
- kcmastrpc 8y agoprobably had something to do with the comment in the end. i agreed with everything up to that point. it's like blaming the car/alcohol for all the alcohol related car crashes that happen. just because some sociopathic asshole decides to be oppressive and they happen to follow a certain religion all of a sudden their religion is to blame?
- krapp 8y ago>just because some sociopathic asshole decides to be oppressive and they happen to follow a certain religion all of a sudden their religion is to blame? Yes, when that religion and the culture around it not only encourages that oppression, but discourages negative consequences for that oppression, and propagates that oppression across generations, and sometimes defends it with the force of law, then religion should justifiably carry the blame. In the case of menstruation and other women's issues, what should merely be medical and hygiene concerns are conflated into "the will of God" because a holy book or scripture says that women and their bodies are impure, and as a result the imposition of religious dogma upon society has had a direct and negative consequence for women that it hasn't had for men, or that it likely wouldn't have in a purely secular context.