daily reminder that like a whole lot of male saints are on record saying misogynistic shit
"any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder" - st augustine
"woman is defective and misbegotten" - st thomas aquinas
"the [female] is weak and fickle" -st john chrysostom
"the woman together with her own husband is the image of God so that that whole substance may be one image; but when she is referred separately to her quality of help-meet, which regards the woman herself alone, then she is not the image of God" -st augustine
"women's very consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame" - st clement of alexandria
"it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman… i fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children." - st augustine
"woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. therefore she is unsure in herself. what she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. and so, to put it briefly, one must be on one’s guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil... her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good" - st albertus magnus
"woman is the root of all evil." - st jerome
"it does not profit a man to marry. for what is a woman but an enemy of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a domestic danger, delectable mischief, a fault in nature" - st john chrysostom
"so by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in men the discretion of reason predominates" - st thomas aquinas
"woman is less qualified for moral behavior. for the woman contains more liquid than man, and it is a property of liquid to take things up easily and to hold unto them poorly. liquids are easily moved, hence women are inconstant and curious. when a woman has relations with a man, she would like, as much as possible, to be lying with another man at the same time. woman knows nothing about fidelity." - st albertus magnus
and this is a small collection. i'm just tired of all the idolization of saints