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  1. Mary Daly _ Quintessence...Realizing the

    We understand deeply that until all women are free no man can be free. Even when we believe that we've taken everything into consideration we acknowledge that we may be behaving as badly and as snoolishly as our forefathers. We are learning to recognize this as a culturally inherited blind spot that leads inevitably to the destruction of women and all life on Earth, including ourselves. Moreover:We resolve to accept counsel when criticism is offered regarding our deficiencies and to make every effort to improve.We resolve not to unduly burden our Sisters by insisting that they teach us, correct us, and explain to us.We resolve to respect Women's Space.We resolve to encourage all women to activate the fullness of their potential and never stand in the way.We resolve to take responsibility for our share of domestic chores and childcare.We resolve to meet together regularly as men to learn how to transform our violent tendencies.We resolve to eradicate all eroticism that depends upon a paradigm of dominance and submission. We resolve to continue diligently the process of forgetting "how to be a man."Statement from the Biophilic Brotherhood, dated January 1, 2019 BE
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  2. Mary Daly _ Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of

    Originally, it was believed that witches possessed the power of glamour and according to the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, witches by their glamour could cause the male 'member' to disappear. In modern usage, this meaning has almost disappeared into the background and the power of the term is masked and suffocated by such foreground images as those associated with glamour magazine.
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  3. Mary Daly _ Beyond God the Father: Toward

    The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term "method" must be reinterpreted and in fact wrenched out of its usual semantic field, for the emerging creativity in women is by no means a merely cerebral process. In order to understand the implications of this process it is necessary to grasp the fundamental fact that women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our power to name ourselves, the world or God. The old naming was not the product of dialogue- a fact inadvertently admitted in the genesis story of Adam's naming the animals and the women. Women are now realizing that the universal imposing of names by men has been false because partial. That is, inadequate words have been taken as adequate.
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  4. Mary Daly _ Quintessence...Realizing the

    The very word philosophy terrifies many women. In Quintessence I strive to exorcise this patriarchally embedded fear that undermines our intelligence and passion. We were all philosophers when we were five years old. Re-Calling our connections with nature at that age, many women can Re-member our sense of wonder and our urgent need to know. We were always asking "Why?" This state of mind can be called Wonderlust-meaning a strong and unconquerable longing for Elemental adventure and knowledge.What happened to our Wonderlust? Our visions, dreams, and far-out questions have been stunted by phallocratic society and its institutions. When we come into contact with our own deep and passionate intellectuality, we become intolerably threatening to the patriarchy. This is why there is an overwhelming taboo against women becoming philosophers, that is, seekers of wisdom on our own terms/turf.Philosophy-of our own kind, for our own kind-is a source of wholeness and power that rightfully belongs to women. Breaking the patriarchal taboo against it-against us-we break out of the state of deception. Moreover, we open gateway after gateway into our own Other-world, our Homeland. From this perspective we can See, Name, and Act to end the atrocities perpetrated against ourSelves and all the Biophilic beings.
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  5. Mary Daly _ Quintessence...Realizing the

    What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women.
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  6. Mary Daly _ Quintessence...Realizing the

    We are aware that the gods of patriarchy are pale derivatives and reversals of ancient yet always Present Goddess{es}. We suspect that phallocentric writers and artists who have even a glimmer of insight are sometimes made uncomfortable by their own state of deception. Those who have any awareness of the heinous crime of reversal which is patriarchy must be in a state of deep conflict and fear of...Her.
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  7. Mary Daly _ Beyond God the Father: Toward

    Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vindication. This focuses upon the situation of oppression and the struggle for liberation. It is a short-circuited transcendence when the struggle against oppression becomes an end in itself, the focal point of all meaning. There is an inherent contradiction in the idea that those devoted to a cause have found their whole meaning in the struggle, so that the desired victory becomes implicitly an undesirable meaninglessness. Such a truncated vision is one of the pitfalls of theologies of the oppressed. Sometimes black theology, for example that of James Cone, resounds with a cry for vengeance and is fiercely biblical and patriarchal. It transcends religion as a crutch {the separation and return of much old-fashioned Negro spirituality} but tends to settle for being religion as a gun. Tailored to fit only the situation of racial oppression, it inspires a will to vindication but leaves unexplored other dimensions of liberation. It does not get beyond the sexist models internalized by the self and controlling society - models that are at the root of racism and that perpetuate it. The Black God and the Black Messiah apparently are merely the same patriarchs after a pigmentation operation - their behavior unaltered.
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  8. Mary Daly _ Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of

    Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman."
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