The Myth of Soulless Women

[Leigha]

I’ve always understood the “accusation” to mean when someone is cold hearted or lacking integrity. Hmm.

[Zinjanthropos]

I’ve always understood the “accusation” to mean when someone is cold hearted or lacking integrity. Hmm.

Let’s say one fights against for what they determine is a false accusation. For the person who fights the supposed false accusation....is he/she not making an accusation themselves? I mean each side accusing the other of being wrong. Which accuser then is cold hearted or lacking integrity?

[Yazata]

I don't believe that women have souls.

But I don't think that they are deficient in that regard, since I don't believe that men have souls either.

I don't believe in the existence of souls.

At least not in any substantial sense.

[Leigha]

I’ve always understood the “accusation” to mean when someone is cold hearted or lacking integrity. Hmm.

Let’s say one fights against for what they determine is a false accusation. For the person who fights the supposed false accusation....is he/she not making an accusation themselves? I mean each side accusing the other of being wrong. Which accuser then is cold hearted or lacking integrity?

I mean, that when I hear someone call another ''soulless,'' it's usually implied that the person they're accusing, has no redeeming human qualities. They are ''dead inside,'' so to speak. Or cold and lacking integtrity. I don't consider it to have religious implications, unless I was overhearing an atheist.lol

[Yazata]

The opinion article that Anu quotes expresses an opinion that I agree with. It begins...

"Josh Billings remarked profoundly that "the trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much as ain't so." There are those who know John Chrysostom said "the image of God is not found in Woman." (Actually, he said that "the image of God is not found in Man or Woman.") There are those who know that Thomas Aquinas said that a woman is a defective male. (Actually, he explicitly denies this no fewer than five times.) There are those who know that Aristotle said that a woman is a deficient male - a description based on an appalling mistranslation."

I have to say that I've seen these exact falsehoods being repeated in the feminist literature, as part of their larger attack on the whole Western intellectual tradition.

[Leigha]

Aristotle believed that women are inferior to men, and saw men as “rulers” and women as “subjects.” He felt this way especially when it came to politics. He doesn’t exactly sound progressive. lol

https://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/549...?preview=1