Do I want to paint my face one smooth color so I can powder on more colors on top of it? No, that feels uncomfortable, makes me look like someone else, takes up time, and the supplies are expensive. I’m not performing a man-action, I’m just choosing not to perform the difficult action.

Do I want to shave off my body hair in exchange for one day of smoothness? No, that’s time consuming, boring, and you have to keep up with it or the stubble will itch until you let it grow out fully again. It doesn’t make me look like a man, it makes me look like an adult who is choosing not to perform a cosmetic action.

Ahh but porn has always existed!! Look at cave paintings! Okay. Masturbate to cave paintings. I really want you to masturbate to cave paintings. If it's the same thing, you should have no issues masturbating to cave paintings. I'm dead serious when I say I have no issues with anybody masturbating to cave paintings, or even written smut or anything that doesn't rely on the rape of real people and profiting off of it. I'd be fine with hentai if so much of it didn't try to up the shock factor as much as possible to get people hooked on various fetishes.

I love to see the general public finally waking tf up

This article is different from the others I’ve seen about low birth rates. When they cover America and South Korea, they usually put the blame on wages, lack of parental leave, and general money concerns. But Finland basically knows how to take care of its citizens, and people STILL don’t want to have babies there.

Halfway thru the article, a Finnish woman proposes an alternative theory, which most demographic researchers have overlooked:

Adam as first made from earth and breathed into life, is simply 'A Creature Made from Earth' the original 'Earthling' one might say. Not yet male or female, because this is as yet a single creature.

When The Creator decides to make a companion for Adam. That's when 'It' become 'He' and Eve become 'She'.

Eve is no 'after thought', she completes humanity. Adam isn't 'whole' without her.

The use of a bone from Adam's side is significant.

There isn't supposed to be a superior and inferior. This is a companion to walk side by side with as equals.

They're the same as regarding both being Human Beings.

But also with the sex based differences that are there to be complementary opposites.

The Fruitful Tension of 'Vive le difference!'

Second, that interpretation you give is, as far as I can tell, modern bullshit. Just like the retelling of Persephone being trapped into hell becoming "akshually, she stayed on purpose and was in love" instead of just, you know, women dealing with the cards they were dealt as has happened since the dawn of times.

Adam is not actually whole with her. She's created to be his helpmate, read the damn text. She is NOT a companion, she's the help. There's a difference. There is no equality here, this is again just modern bullshit by people who try to rationalize because surely the holy book is a good book.

(It's not.)

I have heard that the bone thing might be a mistranslation and that she came from his side. It doesn't change much, ultimately, since the cultural myth is that she came from his rib. That's what shaped culture. She's just from a rib. She wasn't created his equal and she wasn't created to be his equal. They aren't regarded the same, look at the reaction from the evil protagonist of the story (they call him a god and I don't really get why, anything else doing what the big guy does over the course of the book would be called a demon): Adam is the one who matters and yet he gets a lesser punishment that applies to both sexes, actually. Having to work for his food and difficult plants making his work more complicated is nowhere near pain during childbirth and having to entirely submit to a man. Especially when she was misled by something evil while he just accepted the fruit from his girlfriend without being persuaded. But of course women are the sinners forever while men totally resist temptation more, trust me bro.

The sex based differences do not lead to complementary opposites, this is New Age bullshit. We have complementary roles in reproduction, and that's it. There are differences but unless you count "being physically stronger"/"being more aggressive" and "being more able to survive crisis situations"/"having a higher pain tolerance" as opposites, then I'll have to say I disagree with every single point you've made.

Anyway. I advocate for education and showing where all those mythologies come from.

I advocate for showing that the so-called holy books are full of shit and horrors. I want people to look at the prophecies of the bible, when they were made and how specific they are, and see why they're bullshit.

I want people to look at the so-called scientific miracles of the quran and compare them to our reality (no, mountains DO NOT stabilize the Earth), as well as reading 4:11 and 4:34 and justifying that to little girls, and reading the hadiths to see the blatant bullshit (I like the one where Muhammad, piss be upon him, forbids hadiths, I also like the vulgar ones, the ones where he's implied to have had sex with men, I want people to explain to me why having periods make women less pious and why Muhammad's own decision that two women's testimonies equal one man is in any way reflective of women's intelligence).

I want religions to be held accountable for the evils they committed. I want religious people to stop mutilating little boys. I want religious people to stop indoctrinating children in the name of their LOvInG God who is at best an abusive parent.

I want antiquated bullshit that holds back humanity to be relegated to the back of the library where people interested in mythology or history can find them but the rest of us are spared from the enormous amount of hatred, bigotry, abuse, violations of human rights, and so on.

I'll stick with mine.

Your attitude is part of why we still have that bullshit polluting the world. "No you're wrong, my sacred text is good actually, it says [opposite of what it says], it has good values, we should keep it!" Meanwhile you let a mental plague keep raging because you won't be honest with us or yourself.

She was always sickly and her pregnancies weakened her. The final one was the killing blow, as she gave birth to a large child in a difficult birth. She died four months later.

One wonders, if this woman was so sickly, why didn’t her husband, a rich man, just not have PIV sex with her? They knew where babies came from and they didn’t need them to run the farm or anything. Why did he have sex with this woman over and over, until her pregnancies killed her?

We are oppressed. We are not in different worlds from the woman in extreme cases of gender apartheid (like Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Africa, Tigray, many more.) Western men are not more benevolent than other men, they don’t hate women less than other men. It’s because women had to save themselves. Women literally committed bombings and arsons for freedom.

The government, and military powers, and religious powers, and the police and courts system, and the medical institution, and the media, and the language we use, and all the money and resources of the entire earth, are still under the control of men for the purpose of serving men.

Of course men would agree that you are empowered in choosing to take their last name, and be feminine, and objectify yourself, and choose to be a stay at home mom, whilst they have power over literal nuclear codes. It’s an illusion. It’s false power.