From a Conversation I Was Having

[consortofvenus]

(I was thinking of a way to explain and reasons often cited for certain behaviors and the ways in which this knowledge got lost.)

In ancient Rome, the illness of women was often attributed to women not following the rules society set for them: basically leaving your home, pursuing pleasure and improving yourself the way a man or the chosen one does

Comments

[ms_eclectic]

I'm assuming you're Catholic?

[consortofvenus]

No, no. Lol. I'm not at all saying this holy theistic mind set is a good idea, I am just stating that it's a higher meaning for them and they don't feel they have to justify it to you or more relevantly how they treat you. And they justify with it doing whatever they like to you. If you're familiar with the old residential schools for native Canadians they had in Canada a long time ago, we native Americans often cite these ideas and contradictions in how a "professional" behaves in how we were and are treated differently in Canada or anywhere. The idea was, sometimes, to stick you into a religious institution - school or hospital - and force you to accept ways counter to your well being but seen as holy - and you had to do it even more if you're native, atheist even, a woman. It was never a good thing.

[consortofvenus]

I'm actually an atheist.