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Flip the Script: Rewrite the Stories
Day One hundred two
Rewrite the Stories
It’s all about me (from a man):
I couldn’t watch the Barbie movie as a casual observer. It forced me to own the ways I have been complicit in perpetuating harmful patriarchy. Doing so consciously or unconsciously, the harmful consequences are the same. My religious conditioning programmed me with an untrue, flawed, inadequate, and harmful view of women. I have documented this before.
For example, here are at least several ways religion corrupted my view of women:
Women brought sin and death into the world.
Women are to blame for the fall of the human race.
Women are inferior to men physically, mentally and spiritually.
Women were intended to be subservient to men.
Women are not capable of exercising authority and leadership.
A godly woman is a silent, submissive, and domestic woman.
Women are responsible for the sexual temptations and transgressions of men.
Women are weak, emotional, and irrational.
~Jim Palmer
Jim Palmer wrote about the ways that religion corrupted his view of women. I want to expand this…
