Hi Thom L: I am not amazed at all about how religions meld into each other, the only diffrence being inane differences in ritual, the name they call god, and son on. Religions, including polytheistic ones like Hindu, are patriarchal and that necessiates the female being subordinate, even submissive. One need that religion fills is psycho…
Hi Thom L: I am not amazed at all about how religions meld into each other, the only diffrence being inane differences in ritual, the name they call god, and son on.
Religions, including polytheistic ones like Hindu, are patriarchal and that necessiates the female being subordinate, even submissive.
One need that religion fills is psychosexual, Humans, despite their evolved brains, are still animals, driven by hormones and (arguementally) instincts. Like the instint to breed, to pass on our genes.
And the act of reproduction requires, in the more brutish of mammals, the need to dominate, the female,the female seeks the most powerful male in her social strata with which to mate, thus providing safety and security for her and her offspring.
You can see that in a "biker" trailer park, the best looking, best built, women is paired with the foulest, biggest, thug. In fact you can determine the rank of say, a drug dealing biker gang, by the attractiveness of their woman. Among the upper class, unless it is a "court marriage" like the medieval marriages, the woman plays the role of arm candy, like Melania Trump, an underwear "model" cum 1st Lady.
Men have no problem marrying "down", women on the other hand, well that is a different story.
When race was an indicator of social status, the only mixed "marriages" were between white men and women of color, usually very light, almost white women.
As race became subordinate to economic wealth and status, and men of color with wealth, achieved a greater social status, that color line was broken.
I classify the 2% as old money and new money, what qualifies as old money is quite different than in the gilded age, when old money did not necessarily have money, but had pedigrees stretching back to before the revolution.
The old money generally marries within their social circle, for instance J F K and Jacqueline Bouvier. While that is where the old money marries, the old money males are expected to have attractive mistresses and affairs (JFK and Marilyn Monroe for instance). You will be hard pressed to find an "old money" female, marrying a lower class commoner, or even a hard working, but non descript well to do middle class.
In our celebrity culture, you might even include celebrities in the old money classification, for they too marry within their social class.
When I was a freshly minted 2d Lt, my boss was a major an American descendant of Slaves (ADOS), he was horrified that a female Major (a nurse) was dating and married a Sergeant.
She was guilty of a social faux pas, she married "down" out of her class. He was oblivious to
the fact that it was only a couple of decades bast Loving v Virginia, and that even then (1980's) interracial marriages where stigmatized (he was not in one)..
The nurse had busted the patriarchal paradigm, she married "below" her station in life. Unfortunately the patriarchal paradigm still has a headlock on society, and religion is just one way in which it is manifested. The law is another, employment is another.
Hi Thom L: I am not amazed at all about how religions meld into each other, the only diffrence being inane differences in ritual, the name they call god, and son on.
Religions, including polytheistic ones like Hindu, are patriarchal and that necessiates the female being subordinate, even submissive.
One need that religion fills is psychosexual, Humans, despite their evolved brains, are still animals, driven by hormones and (arguementally) instincts. Like the instint to breed, to pass on our genes.
And the act of reproduction requires, in the more brutish of mammals, the need to dominate, the female,the female seeks the most powerful male in her social strata with which to mate, thus providing safety and security for her and her offspring.
You can see that in a "biker" trailer park, the best looking, best built, women is paired with the foulest, biggest, thug. In fact you can determine the rank of say, a drug dealing biker gang, by the attractiveness of their woman. Among the upper class, unless it is a "court marriage" like the medieval marriages, the woman plays the role of arm candy, like Melania Trump, an underwear "model" cum 1st Lady.
Men have no problem marrying "down", women on the other hand, well that is a different story.
When race was an indicator of social status, the only mixed "marriages" were between white men and women of color, usually very light, almost white women.
As race became subordinate to economic wealth and status, and men of color with wealth, achieved a greater social status, that color line was broken.
I classify the 2% as old money and new money, what qualifies as old money is quite different than in the gilded age, when old money did not necessarily have money, but had pedigrees stretching back to before the revolution.
The old money generally marries within their social circle, for instance J F K and Jacqueline Bouvier. While that is where the old money marries, the old money males are expected to have attractive mistresses and affairs (JFK and Marilyn Monroe for instance). You will be hard pressed to find an "old money" female, marrying a lower class commoner, or even a hard working, but non descript well to do middle class.
In our celebrity culture, you might even include celebrities in the old money classification, for they too marry within their social class.
When I was a freshly minted 2d Lt, my boss was a major an American descendant of Slaves (ADOS), he was horrified that a female Major (a nurse) was dating and married a Sergeant.
She was guilty of a social faux pas, she married "down" out of her class. He was oblivious to
the fact that it was only a couple of decades bast Loving v Virginia, and that even then (1980's) interracial marriages where stigmatized (he was not in one)..
The nurse had busted the patriarchal paradigm, she married "below" her station in life. Unfortunately the patriarchal paradigm still has a headlock on society, and religion is just one way in which it is manifested. The law is another, employment is another.
Thanks @Farrar. History defines us but as an optimist I hope it does not trap us.