Global Eye - All About Eve

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Look out, ladies! The divinely-appointed duo of George W. Bush and Pope John Paul II are on the prowl again, bringing their patented one-two punch to boudoirs and back alleys everywhere. Last summer, the pious pair launched simultaneous broadsides against the apocalyptic threat of gay marriage; now they're firing their missiles of moral correction at the ultimate source of the world's distemper: uppity females.

This week, the pope's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (known as "The Inquisition" back in the glory days) released a "major statement" on the status of women. The Inquisitors declared that women who resist their subordination to men too strongly are "giving rise to harmful confusion" and perverting their "natural characteristics" of "listening, welcoming, humility, faithfulness, praise and waiting."
It seems these pushy broads should instead be focusing on the "deep intuition" planted in them by God that makes them want to breed and nurture. (As opposed to intuitionless men, who apparently have no role whatsoever in reproduction or parenting -- which, come to think of it, might well seem a logical conclusion to the lifelong celibates luxuriating in the Vatican.) Today's "gender-blurring" agitation for equality is not only making men feel all wiggly and "antagonistic," the Inquisitors say, it's also having "lethal effects on the structure of the family."
This president-pontiff routine is drearily familiar. The pope has long fought to roll back the bodily freedoms won by Western women, while U.S. leaders armed, trained and financed the virulent fundamentalists who destroyed all traces of the budding secularism in Afghanistan -- and have since taken their show on the road. Islamic extremism is thriving everywhere on the bloody chaos created by Bush's invasion of Iraq, as societies under threat rebel against the "Western values" his murderous belligerence claims to represent.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/08/06/120.html

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1. Chris Floyd is one of my favorites - thanks for posting

I like how he ends it:

But this doesn't matter to our fine Christian mullahs; they share the extremists' sanctified misogyny: Eve plucked the apple, and her punishment is eternal. Upon this altar of willful ignorance, millions of women are being sacrificed.