I wrote the paragraph below as a sort of odd appeasement. Well, that and to see what sort of feedback it might draw. Nothing so far, but I'm expecting something down the line, even if indirectly:
Everyman knows ya treat a lady like a whore and
she'll become mean and cantankerous like a man.
Mission accomplished. Why reinvent the wheel?
Contrarily, treat a whore like a lady and she doesn't
become a male, she becomes a banshee who
haunts the moors on cold, misty nights riding the
backs of the hounds of hell.
I composed this paragraph to follow quoting this saying from the Gospel of Thomas in which Peter tells Jesus he oughta get shed of Mary Magdalene.
114 Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
http://users.misericordia.edu//davies/thomas/Trans.htm
If you'll notice the introduction of this saying at the web site you'll see that it was added on to the original list of 114 Sayings. The Catholics did this a lot, but they sure as heck didn't originate the practice. Like most other religious dogma, they tried to make the old ways look like their idea, or at least alter it to make it appear as if it did. The Egyptians and the Pharaohs were notorious for this type of desecration. Chipping noses and other protruding body parts off the old statues. It's what goes on, after the thrill is gone.
The point about women becoming like males in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching has a decisive opinion that disagrees with this saying. In this ancient writing, women becoming equal to men would indicate the end times. The males of a lotta different species do their best creative work trying to impress the females. If there was no need for that, all creativity would come to a standstill.
Other than the fact that I can be and often am a total asshole, I think the dissolution of my marriages, especially the second, was in large part, a result of the women's liberation movement that was rampant at the time.
I'm waiting to turn the TV on until the six o'clock news again today. Too much redundant information drives me nuts. I think the results of this election are going to change the world temporarily in a good way. I'm very pleased with the results. I just hope the promise pays off like it's indicated. I don't like the Red and Blue partisanship. It'll take a firebrand, and I think... I believe... we got One.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
