But of course, men have found a way to turn a good thing into an insult—the worst type of insult, in fact. For men, the word ‘woman’ is belittling, which places them in a moral dilemma because their mothers are women, and in their eyes, their mothers are sacrosanct. Mothers of men are the representation of God on earth, or perhaps more accurately, the image of His pure and inviolable mother. Men have had to compartmentalise their mothers in their general debasing of women because to do otherwise would be to debase themselves. But when men in leadership use women’s bodies to make careless utterances that off end other men, that’s a recipe for a crisis.

Source: Standard Digital September 15, 2020 07:07 UTC