![]() Look at how men in high places engage in monkey business.īut humble as she is, Mary would be the first to object to being treated like a goddess or as a pawn in the raging gender war. Don’t you notice, after believing for centuries that he was made after God’s image, man now seems to embrace Darwin’s theory that the human species has descended from the apes? Indeed, man seems preoccupied with proving his close affinity to his simian ancestors. She has definitively consigned the saying “It’s a man’s world” to the dustbin. Mary has inaugurated a new era that ushered in our post-masculine age. In a very real sense, Mary is the answer to our deep human need for a feminine mediation of the divine, and to our need to see God as totally transcending gender differences. It was from her that Jesus literally got His body and blood.īy God’s will and her wholehearted cooperation, Mary is at the heart of the salvific events in the life of Jesus. Only Mary, a woman, can say of Jesus: “This is my body, this is my blood” in a way that no other person can say of Him. ![]() Mary has deconstructed history into “herstory.” Consider this: It is a woman, not a man, whom God chose to bring forth His physical presence in this world. Many televangelists don’t even mention her for fear of alienating their protestant audience. If we could only appreciate what the Blessed Virgin Mary had done to transform our idea of the female and the feminine, we would accord her greater praise and veneration than what we do now. Providentially, a woman named Mary has changed all that. Of course, there were also Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, Cleopatra, Anna Karenina, and Joan of Arc, but they survive in our memories more as martyrs or victims of men, than heroic individuals.Įven among us, Filipinos, many still consider women as “anak ni Eba” with the connotation of being, like the biblical Eve, a temptress evoking the song’s refrain: “O tukso, layuan mo ako.” They are potent arguments for masculine superiority. ![]() Who could forget the Greek dramas featuring the exploits of male tragic heroes? The world also delighted in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, El Cid, Faust, Dostoevsky’s Ivan, Verdi’s Don Carlos, Tolstoy’s Vronsky, and Pasternak’s Dr. In countless plays, theater, and literary works, the main protagonists were always male. Heroism in literature had been a masculine domain, too. They colonized people, enslaved and sold them, and gave countless women a terrible time. Men, not women, fought the great wars, built empires, established world religions, built splendid churches and architecture, composed timeless opera and symphonies. The word “mankind” is itself indicative that the human race was primarily thought of in terms of men. Excellence in sports was gauged by the extent of man’s reach, height, speed, endurance, and stride. Women were considered beautiful if their bodies approximated the male physique.įor centuries, virtue, honor, common sense, and intelligence were man-based, man-oriented, and man-regulated. Greek philosophers said: “Man is the measure of all things.” Greek sculptures took masculine physical proportions as ideal. For ages, people took the word “man” in that biblical passage as “male.” Literature, philosophy, and the arts have glorified the masculine gender to the point of divinizing it. The Bible tells us that God made man after His image. It does not store any personal data.THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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