Men and Laws – Women and Knowledge

As the story goes…………….ancients have it and with fiction spun
I’m not religious but this is what was written/said,

“1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” (John 1:1)

From this comes the assumption, not feast of, that laws were (are, on a percentage basis) made by men, who thought/think they might be channelling some leader (of men).

They carved these laws on stone tablets and worshipped them. Used them to make other men subservient and women goods and chattels to be “owed” and “sold” by men, as Levi-Strauss.

But the law makers grew careless and left their stone tablets lying around.

Enter women

“Yes, you could use the stone tablet to ‘club’ him while he slept……”

Those carvings had symbols that kept repeating and forming patterns. Was it code? Ah, to break the code!

There were lots of symbols for ‘good’, ‘evil’ and ‘power’.

The code seemed to relate to how people should live: rules and laws. Yet, nowhere in this code could the women find reference to their power.

As the women came to understand it more, they saw that the code inferred that the men had power over them! And this made them angry….

….all the more reason for using the stone tablets as weapons on sleeping men.

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Through the ages

Men have used these laws to abuse and enslave other men and women.

The property of women – well, they had none because it was their fathers’, brothers’, uncles’.

If women wanted to inherit any family estate, she had to marry a man and get him to do it for her.

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Time moved slowly

Women began to organise themselves and discuss how they could undermine the rules and power of men.

They got educated; took jobs; and formed secret societies.

Men became frightened and tried to write new laws ….

But the women had learned the language used to frame these statutes that the men thought mighty and fought back using the same language.


Present

Women use their knowledge to continue fighting to have the laws applied equally.

A tricky thing has happened, though.

The ideas and ways of sharing information, using the Internet – first developed by the United State Military – led people [They were originally only men.] to starting making information even more available.

Governments wanted to publish their laws and rules.

Guess what?

Women already had computers: for organising workplaces, families and social threads.

Now they could access laws!

They could read laws and know when the makers of laws – men – were breaking them.

Women, thus, found that “Knowledge is Power”

They used their knowledge of laws to form “watch-dogs” and organisations to make men follow the law.

With knowledge and change came respect from others and new laws were writ.

Aaah, the powerful combination of women and knowledge over powers thousands of years of rule by men and laws.

………if only it could occur!


References

John 1:1, “The Deity of Jesus Christ”, 2007. On-line Parallel Bible http://bible.cc/john/1-1.htm (Accessed: 16 April 2007)