Yea. As to why? My ONION is that, first of all, these religions are based in patriarchal power structures (which is a reflection of the societies from which these religions arose and are practiced). In such patriarchies, men are afforded the vast majority of the social, economic, cultural, political, and sexual power. In order to enjoy a fraction of this power, women have to get it through their proximal associations with men, namely through marriage. What's easier: forming a resistance alongside other women to overturn deeply ingrained power structures that have yet to be overturned (re: history) OR getting married, enjoying whatever luxuries your husband can afford, living a simple life, and upholding the status quo?
Also, as other people said, indoctrination prevents people from feeling like this is actually a problem. Treating women like baby-making machines isn't misogyny, it's "growing the church!"
Yes, like the notion that women are responsible for men being aroused by them is very male centric and self serving. Even newer religions like Mormonism that sees women as nothing more than a reproductive system has this in common. The only reason women are willing participants is because they've been indoctrinated. Without indoctrination religion would cease to exist.
Hm, I can take my outsider morality and apply it to their belief systems and says yes, these systems are a horrible deal for women, where an insider/believer (even a woman) might say fairness is irrelevant, this is what God commands... I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know that it's fair for me too judge too much, up to the point of people getting hurt, honor killing and shit like that, but honestly I think that is more about human nature than it is about any particular faith or belief system
Most of them are simply born into it, grew up in it, they are not shown or taught anything different
Islam is definitely unfair to women. Christianity maybe a little, but not really in practice unlike Islam. Judaism is probably about equal to Christianity in that respect. For any of those religions, the answer to why women (and, for the large part, anyone else) follows them is because they were indoctrinated to since they were kids. What gets deeply ingrained when you're a kid, you never shake.
You can look at their texts in a way, that they are not unfair to women. Take Islam for example. Yes, men can marry 4 women but he has to satify all 4 of them to the fullest or it is not going to happen. Or that your mother is more important than your father. Much more according to the Prophet (May Allah find enjoyment in his moonwalk) Or, if you "have to" "hit" a women, do it with a cotton swab. Like suggested in the texts. So it has nothing to do with beating but rather with having fun and a good laugh. Many examples. If you live by them in a marriage etc. (And by that standard there will be hardly a man that can have more than one woman) it's not unfair. If something is unfair, you can always use the book to find something that turns it around in a way. This is what I learned form lectures that talked about the advantages for women in the Religion of Islam. Of course I know that in reality things are a little different.
Depends on how it's put in place, the problem is when such religions become rigid and prescriptive on how people should act, when it's more political than spiritual.
Given the chance, a religion can be reformed into something better fitting for the era, I believe that is mandatory for it to survive.
Abrahamic religions are the way they are due to historic conditions and their later development. They just are, like culture, a product of humans. And certainly carry the good, the bad and the ugly in them we humans put in. And women, and not only women, follow old customs as they have been told to do, as their respective societies demand, as their family wants them to do. Not everybody wants to leave that ruleset, not everybody has a desire to do that, not everybody has the strength or possibility to do it. Not even those who feel the pain inflicted upon them want to leave. Only a few reject painful shit and take the consequences. And then there are mums who would protect their children in any way, even when it is their doom. So they do not question or unfollow the rulesets, they just do it as a means of protection. And by doing so they tell the children the same: be calm, follow, keep quiet, even when it is painful. And they tell children that it is for the better, for the best, it helps, it is in the name of the Lord and for happiness. So how can you ask "why" ?
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