u/DeerArtistic1518

Life is not fair, at least not to women. Even the most privileged of us suffer many obstacles men cannot even fathom. So should we not have the right and even obligation to make the most of what we got? In my case, should I not use all my womanly attributes in addition to my intelligence and work ethics to level or even slant the academic playing field in my favor?

I know a lot of my sisters say no and that we should meet the battle of the sexes strictly on male terms. But most of those don’t have, to say it diplomatically, a very high level of female weaponry, at least not in an affirmative, positive, attractive sense. I feel they often try to make up for this deficit by pushing negative female stereotypes.

So I think using my inner and outer beauty is not only fair and called for in gender justice, but also to balance the bad press the movement is getting for displaying undesirable human attributes.

Historically, philosophy has been considered as a female force, regularly embodied by female goddesses.

This was not by coincidence. Since ancient times, the philosophies relevant to human development were kept and transmitted by mothers, and by female oracles and priestesses.

It was only after internal and external violence was invented to replace peaceful tribal organizations that guys usurped “leadership”, running what had been a useful and essential body of thought and tradition into the ground over the past 2500 years.

The many reported fathers of philosophy the West has learned to celebrate have utterly failed in producing much that would build up and sustain a humane, inclusive, and kind society. The multi-layered shit show we are witnessing in the world in recorded history and accelerating in modern times is a direct consequence of male failure, replacing the grounded wisdom of women with untethered, unhinged, and wildly fabulating testosterone nonsense.

I wish I could wish mother Philosophia a happy Mother’s Day. But she has been knocked all but dead.

Don’t tell me it’s repression. That whine doesn’t work anymore. For a century at least. And please don’t list historical or contemporary stand-ins that are not really philosophers by training. Such feel-good make-believe doesn’t help women advance in the field and be taken seriously.

I would like to think of myself as an exception. At least I intend to be one. But I see a lot of girls in class who make me wonder why they are here. And there is literally no female professor apart from some bullshit categories invented to hire a woman.

So what is holding us back?