When God created Adam, God saw that he was alone and so God made from Adam's very flesh and bone, Eve. Woman. God calls her "ezer kenegdo." This is usually translated to English as "helper" or "companion" but it is so much more than that. In her book, Captivating, Stasi Eldredge notes that "the word 'ezer' is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God [Herself], when you need [Him] to come through for you desperately."
Both Man and Woman were made in the image of God. And we weren't made to be the same! This means that both characteristics we recognize as masculine and as feminine illuminate part of the great mystery of who God is.
Genesis 2:18-25 "The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make an (ezer) suitable for him.' Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable (ezer) was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called "woman" for she was taken out of man.' That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame."
Issues of feminism are always present, but with the upcoming presidential election taking a turn towards women's health and sexual health, they have been brought to the forefront of all of our minds, no matter where our positions might lie. One of the capital platforms of the Republican party is their anti-choice stance on women's health and abortion. (Though they prefer to use the inaccurate verbiage, "pro-life," as though pro-choice were synonymous with anti-life). Candidate, Rick Santorum, would even have his own daughter bear the child of her rapist so as to defend the life of an unborn person, while the dangers of pregnancy alone could kill the already living one. His blatantly sexist views are expressed time and time again. Here are just a few of his quotes pertaining to women that set me on edge:
"Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders' war on the traditional family and radical feminism's misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect."
"Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace."
That's radical??
Women, this is your body, your health, your life. Men, this is lives of your wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, friends. Be outraged. Fight back.
Image by Julie Mains of Hot Liberals via Being Liberal on Facebook.
"I am a woman and no man, no group of men, and no institution
holds dominion over me, my mind, my body, my life,
my choices, my vagina, or my uterus."
Here's another awesome image taken from Being Liberal on Facebook.
"If I wanted the government in my womb I'd fuck a senator!"
Betty White is the best.
"Why do people say 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive!
If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina! Those things take a pounding!"
We are the majority!
We are the 52%!
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