Реферат: SexismPatriarchy Essay Research Paper SexismPatriarchyBrian S Slevin

and attain a job or a powerful status. Until Mary gave birth to the “Messiah” a

boy, no woman had really exuded any power. Of course without God’s ordaining

that Mary give birth to Jesus this would never have happened. Jesus went around

and in all the parables and stories told in the bible, women would flock to his

feet and he would always protect and help them. Meanwhile men in the stories

would often attain Sainthood and become heroes. To quote the bible,”God, made

man in his own image.” In other words if God is the supreme being then we at

least look like him and women were only created to bear our children. Also when

God created Adam and Eve he took a rib from Adam to make Eve. “Then the Lord

God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed

lifegiving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.”

“Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and

grow it. Then the Lord God said,”It is not good for the man to live alone. I

will make a suitable companion to help him. So he took some soil from the

ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to

the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their

names. So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them

was a suitable companion to help him. Then the Lord God made the man fall into

a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man’s ribs and

closed up the flesh. He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him.”

It is also true that according to the bible “woman” not “man” was the one

that was fooled by the devil and was also the one that forced the fruit onto the

“man.” This in and of itself is a sexist idea and teaching of the bible. But

these are only two stories taught by the Catholic church, there are a great many

more. It is precisely because of these blatant sexist ideas that some Catholic

men and women are the way they are. Sexism is found everywhere in our society

and to discuss everywhere that it is found would take forever but I feel I have

covered the most important realms of sexism and there effects on men and women.

Sexism however, remains a major influence on both conscious and unconscious