Happy Hanukkah!

like10thousand
Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:01:04 +0000

Yeah, I actually started thinking about that maternalism thing… Hebrew culture, historically, is incredibly patriarcal, like all the Abrahamic religions (Judiasm, Islam, Christianity). It wouldn’t make sense that your mother would carry your bloodline…

UNLESS it was a convenient way to prevent your dashing-looking young son from marrying the latest camel-riding Egyptian strumpet to waltz into your tent. It makes more logical sense for it to be less of a woman-power thing and more of a use women to keep the men under control thing, to me. Historically… that’s nothing against Hebrews ;)

-always too pc, alyssa