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.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Well, I don't understand it...she's obviously had plenty of male attention over the years. bwhaahhahaha.

[Shanda]

These people sound really evil.

I can't imagine a world with 9 girls for every boy. For that matter the opposite would also be awful. The systm we have now works out just about right.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What do you mean it isn't the forum for it...we've been through your "alternative" lifestyle stuff before.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

This isn't satire? Wow. Lock her up and throw away the key.

Signed,
Someone Who Thinks Men Are Great

[Arthur McGowan]

A theology professor at a "Jesuit," "Catholic" university. The same "Jesuit," "Catholic" university that held an obscene memorial bash for its distinguished alumna, shot while on her job killing babies at Planned Parenthood.

[Humbug]

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

lol, i did too..i was like, "what in the world??" :D

[dagnabbit]

sort of like this?

[Slyfox]

If I remember correctly, she tendered her resignation about a year ago from Boston College. I think they couldn't get rid of her because of tenure. (?) I'm not quite sure why she quit, but I know it had something to do with having to admit men into her classes. She didn't wanna and the college said she had to. I think that's how it went. I do know that she used to regularly cast spells on the male members of the staff at BC.

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Mary Daly

[socal_parrot]

You're not alone, I did the same thing.

[AmericaUnited]

This women is as sick and demon possessed as Adolph Hitler was.

[John Lenin]

Women are much more civil than men are. They don't call it a cat fight for nothing !

[Tribune7]

You illustrate a very important point. Real Amazons shave their legs. It is imperative we inform Ms. Daly.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Has anyone ever asked these witches if perhaps the reason they don't like men has to do with the fact that men don't find them attractive? I'd love to ask one of them this question.

[Tribune7]

You illustrate a pretty important point too.

[A_perfect_lady]

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.

What irony? She's a professor in a university, so she's already IN an institution and it's obvious the lobotomy was a success.

[Publius6961]

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.

uhhh...
Taking into account the source of this proposal, that is highly improbable, impossible even.

Unless those "lucky" 10 percenters are bred blind...

[beckett]

If I remember correctly, she tendered her resignation about a year ago from Boston College.

According to the interview linked to above, Daly is still on the faculty at Boston College. Her case (she refuses to allow men to take her classes) is winding its way through the college's arbitration system.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm sorry I had to do it. But, it fell into that category of being careful what you wish for, etc.

[Doctor Raoul]

Hate speech. If we were liberals, we could call for her death.