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12th February 2012

Post reblogged from They call me lady tiger, but I never eat my young with 333 notes

Why I Don’t Blame Religion for Sexism

feministhistorian:

iamateenagefeminist:

I was browsing the feminist tag recently when I found this image: 

The person who posted it did so to demonstrate the misogyny present in two major religious texts. I cannot deny that there is misogyny present in most religious texts, and that people often use religion as a justification for sexism. However, as a feminist, I dislike this graphic because it seems to imply that religion is the reason for sexism. 

Religion can be used to justify sexism, but religion isn’t the root cause of sexism. Religion, like everything else, was created in a patriarchal culture. Thus, religion will be influenced by patriarchal norms. Religion isn’t inherently sexist, it only becomes sexist when the society that created it is sexist in the first place.      

Atheists often use sexist or homophobic passages to highlight the absurdity or religion. I don’t like this because I feel it causes atheists to not look critically about the sexism, homophobia, and racism within their own groups. I have written before about how I feel uncomfortable around atheist groups because of sexism. Atheist groups often think they are immune from bigotry because bigotry, in their minds, is the result of religion. As most of us know, this isn’t true. Bigotry can impede any culture or subculture. Bigotry, ironically, doesn’t discriminate. It is ignorant to think that your group is immune from bigotry for any reason.

In conclusion, we need to stop blaming religion for bigotry that is the result of the greater society as a whole, and atheists need to remember that being non-religious doesn’t automatically make them less sexist than someone who is.  

^THIS!

Source: iamateenagefeminist

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    Bigotry, ironically, doesn’t discriminate. It is ignorant to think that your group is immune from bigotry for any...
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    I wouldn’t say that image is implying religion is the cause of sexism so much as it’s codifying/condoning it. I...
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    Those last two paragraphs especially.
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    Interesting, Im curious what brinx thinks of this :3
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    BOOM! Yes, the same logic applies when atheists try to play the “religion is the cause of violence.” card. No, violence...
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