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- From: holzman@fnalno.fnal.gov (Daniel B. Holzman)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.152133.1@fnalno.fnal.gov>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:21:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.030839.22814@news.ysu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.030839.22814@news.ysu.edu>, ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward
- Chanley) writes:
- >
- > Re: Matriarchy didn't work...
- >
- > The only mistake the Matriarchy made was in assuming that their sons would
- > never take up arms against their mothers. When violent overthrow
- > happened, the life-affirmative, art creating cultures of the Goddess were
- > unprepared to deal with such violence. War was never their thing; art, music
- > and worship were.
-
- Assuming the Matriarchy's existence, you miss half of it. If they made a
- mistake in assuming that their sons would not rebel, they made a mistake in
- having conditions under which sons found it necessary to rebel. If the society
- was totally alienated from violence, where did the sons learn it?
-
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