I was at my Philosophy meetup having a mild argument with another woman there about Genesis 3, also called “The Fall”. I had a very different idea about the meaning of Genesis 3. I don’t think it’s about “original sin” at all. I think it’s about “Original Blame”.

Let’s break it down here. God told them, both of them, not to eat from the damn tree. Eve was seduced by the serpent to eat it. Adam ate it because Eve handed it to him. Both of them knew better. Both of them heard God’s instructions. Yet when God asked them about it, Adam pointed at Eve and blamed her. And all the people’s of the Book, religions that use the Old Testament (The Hebrew Bible), just accepted it.

Like a child, a helpless baby, Adam took no responsibility for his own actions, his own decisions. It was “Original Blame”.

The woman caught my eye, leaned forward, and said to me, “Karin, you’re giving men too much credit.”

Expecting them to be responsible for their own actions is too much? Are they actually children? Helpless babies?

Growing Up Woman

I have a secret to tell you about women. It’s so secret that most women would tell you it’s not true because it’s so deeply subconscious that women don’t even know it’s there. If they truly thought about it, like my Philosopher friend at our meetup, I think most would agree.

Women are raised with men, and “Original Blame” in mind. We’re taught how to deal with men. Not directly, but indirectly through ideas, actions, and how our parents and other people behave.

What are we taught?

• Men are weak, fragile, and emotional.
• Our duty is to do what we can to shore them up.
• Women should NEVER show that she is smarter than him, if she is smarter, because he’s too weak to accept intelligence in a woman.
• Women should NEVER beat him in games because he’s too fragile to accept being beaten by a woman.
• Women should NEVER look sexy out in public because you may cause a man to lose control over themselves and hurt you. It’ll be your own fault.
• But…women should ALWAYS do their best to look their best and be their sexiest so that their man doesn’t lose interest.
• Women should ALWAYS thank him and celebrate him if he does any action for them, their kids, or their household, because if he’s not stroked he may get emotional and act out.
• Women should ALWAYS give up their dreams or career because the man can’t handle not being the one on top.
• Women should ALWAYS allow men to be the kings of the house because the man can’t handle not being the one on top.
• Women should ALWAYS have sex with them, and pretend we like it if if we’re not in the mood, because they can’t handle it and may become emotional and act out.

That is a lot of pretending and compromising just because the implication of Genesis 3 is that men are not responsible for their own behavior and it’s always a woman’s fault.

Why?

Why haven’t women rebelled as strongly as they are now against this before? Why are they doing it now?

Why haven’t men figured out that women have been treating them as whiny children? Why are they okay with it? Why are they trying to go back to it? Over-turning Wade vs. Roe, trying to force us to have kids, trying to make us feel guilty for “male loneliness”, and blaming women for men’s behavior?

Personally, I’d be embarrassed. But then, I’m a woman, not a man.

For women, historically, they have had no rights and were often not even seen as human. This is major ancestrial trauma. Women have needed to come up with ways to survival. All of the the things they do to pacify men are actually efforts to stay alive. To keep men from raping them. To keep men from beating them. To keep men from killing them.

This is not love, commitment, loyalty or respect.

Being nostalgic about the past with women in the kitchen is nostalgia for the slavery of women. My grandmother hated men and was forced to marry and have kids. She emotionally messed up my dad. He emotionally messed up me. And that’s why I tend to not fall for the urging to accept women’s ways.

The reason it’s NOW, is because we now can vote, work, get bank accounts and credit cards, enter into contracts, buy our own homes, rent our own apartments, drive, the list goes on and on.

It’s called FREEDOM.

If a woman wants to get laid, there’s always a man available. You can hire a man to do work. You can go out with men and have fun with them. There’s no reason to have one move in and cause problems in your house. There’s no reason to put up with any of it.

So, if a man wants to get married and have kids, they need to evolve from being a child to being a true partner.

You’d think this was a reasonable demand. But no… The babies are crying and waving their fists around.

A Prediction

Is this going to work? Will they evolve?

No, it won’t work.

The problem is that men don’t evolve. Just look at the world today. They are still killing and raping and beating and manipulating and thieving and hurting us and each other. All the laws in the world just won’t change this.

I blame DNA. The Y chromosome. Men lose a lot just to be men. LOL.

My prediction is that they will use their strength and their position in society to subjugate women again. Maybe even get close to “The Handmaid’s Tale”. Their justification will be that women are threats to humanity that they need to be controlled. They will not see the irony in this.

Women will continue disrespecting men and treating them like children because that’s what men want.

Magic Wand

The only way men will evolve is if we start husbanding them. Controlling which men, and women, propagate and which don’t. Weed out the men who are unable to control their emotions and actions. Men and women who maybe shouldn’t continue their line. Create better people.

I say this knowing that I’m one of those women. Neither my father or mother had any business marrying and having kids, even if I’m grateful for the opportunity to live, even with all the issues I inherited. This mistake was corrected by me and my brothers. None of us got married or had kids. Just one of my brothers has regrets about not having a kiddo.

But of course, this kind of control is not right. And can be used by the wrong people…

I guess maybe the woman in my Philosophy meetup was right.

I am giving men too much credit…