Misogyny and Gender Pluralism

URL- http://genderpluralismcenter.blogspot.com/2013/11/misogyny-and-gender-pluralism.html

At the Gender Pluralism Center, we
will explore if misogyny is religiously sanctioned or men took it upon
themselves to make things work for them, and in the process, the
un-intended consequence was making a villain out of God and religion.

A few Men tend to be insecure about their own worth compared to women, and
devise ways to feel secure by causing women to be insecure. I am not talking
about the Taliban in a far off land, but our own Taliban mind set right here in
America denying women the right to choose what she does with her body,
rejecting her equal pay or expect her to the husband.  

“A woman should behave like a woman” “Her place is home” echo the   conservative religious men from Christian,
Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and other traditions.

Women have put up with this crap
from men far too long, it’s time we feel, act and talk like equals. The silence
of the good people is considered an endorsement to the right wing views on
women. Do the good men give permission to the right? If not, we need to speak
up. We need to be good for some good values and not good for nothing people.

A good functional society strives to be just to every citizen, when justness
becomes a norm in every aspect of life – be it between spouses, family members,
members of the community, town, state and the nation, then people trust each
other and mind their own business.

Don’t look to anyone group to blame,
look at yourselves first. A sentence that I have been repeating lately is
“for every Muslim ass, there is a Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh or other
ass” add hole if you need to. 

This blog will make an effort to find the other bad guys for every one
projected and blamed in the society.  Eventually we need to realize that
individuals must be held accountable for their wrong doing, and not their
religion.   

I believe everything on the earth is created to seek its own balance, whether
it is matter or individual, family or a nation. Every one struggles to have
that elusive equilibrium which goes off balance as regularly as it is desired
to be in balance.

For years,
Islam has been in the forefront of receiving the accusations, but when I study
Islam, it is not the religion, it is the men.  The Christians find it
convenient to blame the Old Testament, instead of doing the research and
finding what God meant. 

Prophet Muhammad had time and again said, “Justice:” among people,
within family, among nations and tribe is the key to building a successful
cohesive society where no one has to live in fear of the other. The other word
for Islam would be Justice – obviously that is not what you see in the world
today. Neither do you see Jesus’s teachings practiced by Christians or Jews
follow Torah or Bhagvad Gita by Hindus.

To me all religions are equally beautiful and divine; no religion is superior
or inferior to any. If any on claims superiority, he or she does not understand
the nature of his or her religion. Religion is not about arrogance which kills
relationships and balance in the society, but it is about humility, that which
builds bridges between people.