BRAINWASHING
The ancient Romans knew that they could defeat their enemies in combat, but they could not rule them by sheer force. Male domination also has always depended on brainwashing female slaves. Men, the Herrenvolk, have for millennia enjoyed all freedoms, especially sexual freedom. In peace or at war men felt free to “conquer” (physically) any woman they could find, but women were supposed to be faithful to their permanent or temporary users. Promiscuity in men was hailed as a virtue and a sign of virility. Poets and troubadours glorified the splendid conquests of Don Juans, and every king and ruler was surrounded by a host of courtesans and ladies-in-waiting.
Women were not only subjugated but also brainwashed into a docile acceptance of their subordinated role. They were told that to be feminine meant not to compete with men in intelligence, industry, initiative, maturity, and courage. The “ideal woman” as prescribed by men was supposed to represent a strange mixture of infant and mother. When men were in one of their artificially fanned domineering or heroic moods, their women were expected to be as soft, gentle, submissive, and obedient as infants. When men were tired, defeated and hurt, their women were expected to be sympathetic, affectionate, soothing, ever-present and ever-caring mothers.
This brainwashing encompassed every aspect of a girl’s life from cradle to grave. A little girl was told she must not act in the free, self-expressive manner as her brothers did. As she was growing up, the male-controlled educational systems trained her for her future role as the man’s toy and joy, or nurse and caretaker. She was not allowed to express her own desires and ambitions, and her thinking was as constricted as the toes of Chinese girls; obviously the ruling class of men feared that free-thinking and ambitious slaves might rebel and run away.
Woe to the woman who dared to express sexual desires! Pious medieval monks, who secretly masturbated, invented perversely sadistic tortures for “women-witches” who were believed to have slept with Satan himself. The famous “Malleus” (The Witches’ Hammer) is an infamous historical document of masculine perversions, combined with pornography, perversions, and saintly rationalizations.
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