Reply #24: Again, it's a matter of perspective... [View All]

[houstonintc]

For one the realities of life during much of human history have not afforded women great deals of liberties, especially in the age before the idea of human liberties.

The need for lots of children (Due to high infant mortality and competition for resources) and just the oddities of human culture probably would lead to women having certain roles and men having other roles. Inferiority is very much a matter of perspective under this view. Many religions were not flattering or kind about their opinions of human nature in general and thus the presumed nature of women was seen as bad.

As for Goddesses, no there really hasn't ever been some historical time period of some supreme "Earth Mother" deity... in spite of what some theorists claim about stone age Europe and beyond.