“God lay Adam down to sleep and took a rib from his side. From
the rib God created a woman, Eve, to be with Adam.” It is so obvious that from a long time ago, people have already shaped
their definition of gender roles. Being created by god and born from a rib of
Adam, Eve, was a part of Adam, which also indicated women should subordinate to
men. Freud posed that we should not trace everything up to ancient time but
never look back to one’s childhood. However, gender difference must be something
we must look generally and separately. Although in earlier period of mankind, the men
and women’s social division of labor has already appeared, the real
division of sex inequality is established in the privately owned system. Thus, the ideology of this gender division have been passed down generation
by generation.
Funny how according to biology, man comes out of woman's womb (rib cage area), but once monotheistic religion comes along suddenly its woman that comes out of man's rib cage area...
ReplyDeleteThis seems more akin to the discussion of man and woman as "one and other"