in the world is patriarchy. Then, when men thought they, 'had it all'.
The 'all' they believed they owned was listed in the final Commandment.
(Exodus Ch 2 Vs 17) under 'what not to covet' it lists;-
'Your neighbours house,
his wife, his servants [both genders],
his ox,
his donkey
or anything else'.
This was a list was of what is one man's that another should not covet,
as much as what another had that his neighbours should not want,
and it was not exhaustive.
I don't mind-who would argue with the abbreviations of history?
But if from cattle to wives [did men make children the property of women?
And reclaim them when they became adults? Discuss... ]
as mens property they had to be silent whilst sentient and owned,
as units of currency not for overt exchange between men,
and not even a neighbour to each other in their keptness
-for not being able to own property, being owned
must have been incredibly demeaning. A slow form of torture.
So modern women dream of pretending to omniscience,
then please think again about of the consciousness of others
that you what you want to own, and let that limit your ambition.
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