Humanity Should be 10% Male 90% Female (BC Prof Mary Daly)

What Is Enlightenment? (Issue 16) ^ | Fall/Winter 2002 | Susan Bridle

[beckett]

What Is Enlightenment (Susan Bridle): Which brings us to another question I wanted to ask you. Sally Miller Gearhart, in her article "The FutureIf There Is OneIs Female" writes: "At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race." What do you think about this statement?

Mary Daly: I think it's not a bad idea at all. If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. People are afraid to say that kind of stuff anymore.

WIE: Yes. I find myself now thinking that's a bit shocking.

MD: Well, it's shocking that it would be shocking.

WIE: So it doesn't sound like your vision of a separate nation for women is something you see as an interim stage that would eventually lead to men and women living together in true equality.

MD: No. That's a very old question. I answered that to audiences twenty-five, thirty years ago. I just don't think that way. See, right now, I would be totally joyous to have a great community of womenwhether men are somewhere out on the periphery or not. I don't have this goal of: "Oh, then we can all get together again!" That doesn't seem to be a very promising future. So why would I think about it? I think it's pretty evident that men are not central to my thought.

WIE: I have one last question. At the beginning of this interview, you spoke about the experience of being deeply at one with that which animates all of life. I wanted to ask you what you think about the possibility of becoming identified with that as who one ultimately is, having that as one's ultimate resting place, or ground, so to speak, and where one's gender would no longer be a primary reference point.

MD: I don't know if that has anything to do with my experience. I have my own experience of oneness. Sometimes I have ecstasy and a kind of active repose in connection with nature. It's tremendous. But I never forget that I'm a woman, because this is me. I know who I am. I have Female integrity.

[Paul Atreides]

You're fooling yourself. In an ideal world that would be great. However, with the cows, like the one being interviewed, in control, they would all look like Patricia Ireland and Molly Yard. They already want to get rid of 90% of the male population. All of the Victoria's Secret models would be next....if not first.

[Charles Henrickson]

Naturally, we would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time and little to do. But, ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of, say, ten females to each male. . . .

I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious . . . service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

[DoughtyOne]

Hitler - Jews
Mary Daly - Men

Obviously the implications were lost on Mary.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

The irony of this is that 75 years ago this nutty woman would have been in an institution awaiting her lobotomy, and now she is a professor.

[lilylangtree]

Is this woman crazy--10 females to 1 male society? Sounds like she had a bad episode in her life and forgot to move on. The male gender just like the female gender has its bad apples but all those males made out of sticks and snails and puppy dog tails are just plain tantalizing. God knew what he was doing when he created the two genders. Don't mar a good idea.

[Fiddlstix]

This is a joke, right?

[ErnBatavia]

Mary Daly = "Total Babe" (with the comfortable shoes)

[Crusader21stCentury]

Dr. Strangelove ....... Great Movie!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

very true...accept there are far too many of these nuts in academia, which gives them an air of importance.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

very true...except there are far too many of these nuts in academia, which gives them an air of importance.

[Slyfox]

Mary Daly, self-professed lesbian-witch and bossom-pal of Hillary Clinton.
Ever wonder where Hillary got her early training that made her into such a shrew?

[rabidralph]

Oh, dear. I just misread the headline and thought it said Hannity!

[beckett]

Nobody listens to, or cares about, these people.

I agree Daly and her ideological cohorts are not much listened to. But still, both for entertainment and cultural zeitgeist value, I considered her remarks worth disseminating.

[hattend]

She got that idea from Dr. Strangelove.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

The truth is that these women are very unattractive and resent men because men don't find them attractive. I agree with you that attractive women would be right up there with men on the hit list.

[A. Pole]

The truth is that these women are very unattractive and resent men because men don't find them attractive.

You might be right.

[Mr. Mojo]

Nice photo (barf).... Would Mizz Daly be consider among the 10%?