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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 _ 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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  3. Mary Daly _ Quintessence...Realizing the

    What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women.
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  4. 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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