Re: Re: OT: formal prefixes
Re: Re: OT: formal prefixes
- Subject: Re: Re: OT: formal prefixes
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:05:21 -0600
As a modern woman who despises patriarchal ownership of females, I
resent any appelation that refers to a marital status.
The practice of publicly stating a female's status of being owned by a
male dates to the early greeks who invented marriage and patriarchy.
Their word for "marriage" was the equivalent of an animal being
"domesticated", like cattle. Presumably, in such a male-dominated
culture, all females were evil sirens, harpies, fates or medusas who
would destroy a man until they were tamed. Marriage was invented to
control the natural female urge to promiscuity, ensuring the male's
child really was his child. This perpetuated the patriarchal right to
rulership and ownership of property. The greek patriarchal culture
used marriage to vilify matriarchal cultures that believed in
animistic nature centered spiritualities. Females who rejected
monogamy were called "Amazons" or "Witches", and male gods like
Hercules slaughtered the Amazons for their rejection of marriage, and
were called heroes for their murder.
Practically, what this means is that we are all people. The 1960's
title of "Ms" seems adequate enough, comparable to "Mr", which is
sufficient to address males regaardless of marital status.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
-- Rachel Cogent AKA Gnarlie
http://Gnarlodious.com/Cogent/
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