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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-07-13 06:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #4209 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4209 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Once Upon A Time In Wonderland)


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[Secret of Mana]


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07. [SPOILERS for Luke Cage Season 2]



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08. [SPOILERS for Infinity War]



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09. [WARNING for dub/non-con]



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[Boku No Hero Academia]



















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Re: FSers who are both (abrahamic) religious and feminist

(Anonymous) 2018-07-14 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Explicitly male regarding God may have gone too far but most certainly "mostly described as male" and "defaulted to male/Father even in non-English languages that do not need to gender as a default" would be accurate. "Our Father" is pretty specific to me, considering plenty of matriarchal religions have gone with "Mother ____" and Christian religion today still goes with Father all over the place. Even when given the choice and ability not to; I don't mean only reciting the Lord's Prayer but in freeform prayer, it's always God, our Father. There may be people who pray to God, our non-gendered-Creator or Holy Spirit, Our Mother/Sister but I mean, I've never heard of it. I don't think it's arguable that God, if not explicitly male, is gendered by religion in general

I don't find that fact to be unfeminist in itself either. If your God just so happens to be male then that could conceivably be random chance thing, right.

But if "translated by men" is the issue, why did God choose only men to speak through? Could a feminist God not have found women to write? Could a feminist God not have empowered a woman to command enough respect that her speeches and preaching and writing were preserved and help equalize the record? Considering an all powerful deity could have chosen anyone, can we judge its choices, in that out of all possible things, it chose men over and over to record itself and bestow religious power and enlightenment upon? Even the female voices we do hear are translated through men, could that not have been different?

For me personally, it's difficult to imagine God as a feminist (by which I mean at the very least, gender-equality-promoting) figure or being or... potential entity I'm not sure what to even classify it as.

I appreciate the response though, and I agree I'd love to hear other people's take on it, agreeing OR disagreeing