Women are made to stand for the entropy driving the universe toward more and more disorder until God (reified Reason) fades away to nothing. Just another irrational power game justifying of one group of humans dominating another.
Even many secularists get suckered into playing this game -- Richard Dawkins as, for instance, when he implied that women trying to draw some demarcation lines of their own (which is always a patriarchal no-no, since women are intrinsically without structure) is just so much whining and silliness.
The lines he would draw between rationality and irrationality are consistent with Western culture being quintessentially rational, and cultures where women allegedly or actually suffer more than in Western culture being considered irrational. This contrast is hardly as stark, in reality, as our metaphysical conceptions would lead us to assume.
Even many secularists get suckered into playing this game -- Richard Dawkins as, for instance, when he implied that women trying to draw some demarcation lines of their own (which is always a patriarchal no-no, since women are intrinsically without structure) is just so much whining and silliness.
The lines he would draw between rationality and irrationality are consistent with Western culture being quintessentially rational, and cultures where women allegedly or actually suffer more than in Western culture being considered irrational. This contrast is hardly as stark, in reality, as our metaphysical conceptions would lead us to assume.
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