In Reply to: Re: The power of myth posted by Perry on December 16, 2005 at 19:01:16:
Aye, me. You've examined woman through the eyes of male authors, some of whom had the audacity to add, "Thus saith the Lord God..." and get included in the sacred cannon.
Interesting that you've cited Milton's Paradise Lost (one of my all-time favorites in English classical literature) where the poet observes: "He (the man) for God only, she (the woman) for God in him." Which essentially says, "Men know the mind of God, and women know God through men."
The idea of women enslaving men through sex is an extremely powerful mythic theme that appears in many cultures. Because the male libido compells his attention in a way that many women don't feel as compelled, men are in a sense bound to women, who are then viewed as objects of control. How to deal with this uncomfortable dependency/need for a woman? Why, control the woman, of course, with a commandment to submit. And what better way to enforce the necessary psychological control but to claim, "Thus saith the Lord God..."
The FFing thing, to my way of thinking, was about Berg the Pimp controlling women (turning them out) in a way that allowed him to control men. Jo posted some thoughts about how this this was accomplished through psychological abuse on the GenEx page. I thought her observations were very insightful.
BTW, I found a copy of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals at a used book store for $5. It's actually a series of three essays that run about 140 pages. Not a lot of reading, but very dense prose, as philosophy often seems to me.