MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Mary Wollstonecraft (born 265 years ago / died 227 years ago), was a women rights advocate at a time when women were denied the most basic of rights.

She knew women are not a mere copy of men.

Dark ages

As if Mary Wollstonecraft didn’t exist, religionists of the type this post is about want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages.
For this reason alone, word-users like me don’t like to see them reside in a country where women, not government, are free to decide what to do with their body. Because the stories of when women standing up for women rights didn’t stand another day because they were put to death by their owners before today was over, must remain stories of the past.

News

Is what I’m talking about news to you?
Because it’s not part of the news? Because it ain’t taught at school?
Be it as it may, I’m talking about “Malleus Maleficarum” (”The Hammer of Witches”), a published 538 years ago religionist book  that features, among others…

• “Detailed processes for the extermination of witches, witch burnings, and witch trials.” – The Hammer of Witches
• “Concubines are the most wicked, followed by midwives, and then by wives who dominate their husbands.” – The Hammer of Witches

According to Wikipedia “very popular” at the time, “The Hammer of Witches” declared female witchcraft as heresy and legitimised males to torture women to get whatever confessions were necessary (I don’t dare imagine) to get them burned alive at the stake. An estimated 3 million females (4% of the then-female population) were put on trial. Between 35,000 to 100,000 of them were put to death. The last execution of a witch in Europe happened 213 years ago. Elsewhere, contemporary witch-hunts have been reported from Sub-Saharan Africa and Papua New Guinea. Official legislation against witchcraft still exists in Saudi Arabia, the land of sheiks, and in Cameroon today.

538 years later

The religionists this post is about now live next to religionists they hate, yet believe the same fictional god. So they had to invent a new one, but the previous 45 having already been named,  they invented a 46th.

Now

Now these new god religionists want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages, to when females — also known as women — possessed fewer rights than their male’s furniture.
They want women dressed like 1,300 years ago again, head to toe in black garbage bags made of fabric.

TAKEAWAY

But Mary Wollstonecraft did not only fight against the religionists, she also fought for direct action, for male disobedience, and for women rights to be equal to those of men. Now it’s up to the non-religionists among us to ensure what Mary Wollstonecraft achieved remain victories for all word-users all over the world, regardless of gender, and not up for grabs by the religionists.

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Age demands respect. Youth, love.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“I have considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

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