Misogyny and Angels

Have you ever wondered why all the angels in the Bible are male or a horrific, sexless creature? I didn’t realize it until recently. In the Bible, angels are referenced as “sons” and they take on the appearance of a male. (See, for example, Lot’s and Daniels’s stories and Psalm; Job 2:189:6) But the Bible was translated and, in all probability, written to justify and uphold misogyny. Women could wash a male’s feet and support him financially, but she could not be a disciple. Go figure. Apparently, only male angels were exiled to Earth where they forthwith impregnated Earthly women who gave birth to giants. Leads one to believe there were no female angels and, as the Bible says, God had to impregnate an Earth woman with his only son. I’m being somewhat facetious. Why would a female want to spend eternity in a place where she doesn’t exist?

However, there are women who want to return to the days of being the property of males where the males had the right to rape, beat, and murder women with no repercussion. Not that males aren’t murdering women today. Sometimes, though, the male has to pay dearly for their mistreatment of women. In Biblical times and up to the twentieth century, the man just found another woman to abuse. (As I write this, I’m realizing that nothing has really changed, even though the laws have. Just goes to show that you can change the law, but you can’t change a person’s heart. Sound familiar?) The only relief from such males, if the woman was to survive, was male relatives, poison, fleeing, and murder. Do we really want those days to return?

And, another thought, women believe that being called an “angel” is a compliment. However, strictly speaking, Biblically speaking, you’re being told that you are masculine or terrifying. Seems like there was a lot of discussion about angels back in 2020 or thereabouts. So, I’m late to the realization that being called an angel is not a compliment. There’s another thing in the Bible that bothers me…the verses where women are told to shut up and follow the man’s interpretation and teachings. This is 2023 and I see where the man’s interpretation and teachings have led us to a looming dead end.

I have never understood people who say they are not Black because their skin color is brown. I’ve always understood “Black” (came of age in the sixties and seventies) to be about an identity that was in opposition to the white supremacists that controlled the United States. “Black” was never about our skin color. We were the lightest of the light (blue vein proud) to the darkest of the dark (only sclera visible at night)…the descendants of the enslaved and those who suffered through Jim Crow. Sometimes people are too literal and they make something simple…complicated. We really do live in a world of symbolism, but some of us…our brains reject the symbol for the literal. And make nonsense a simple term that we understood to symbolize the opposite of what we were fighting. It was a simple way to say…I know what you did and are doing and I will fight you. I am Black and I am proud. James Brown said it best and he was not talking about our skin color, but our mindset.

However, I do understand that Black is now used to describe anyone who has the African phenotype. That’s part of the loosey goosey way we use the same word to describe different things and for the white oppressors to bend the narrative in their favor. I think if we use the “word “Black” to mean “we are in opposition to white oppression”, then maybe some of the fraughtness of “Black” would be alleviated. And, if you are not in opposition…call yourself something else and say it loudly so people don’t mistake you for a person who is Black and proud. (Not that it would matter to white people who are some of most shallow people who walk this Earth. Unfortunately for you, what they see is what you are.)

What is a Golden Age? From my reading over the years, there is a paucity of detail regarding Golden Ages. However, there is a lot of detail about wars, diseases, and natural disasters. Maybe it’s human nature to remember the bad so, maybe, we don’t repeat that same bad. And the good becomes a time like in a dream…you know it happened, but you can’t grasp its reality, not in this moment and maybe never.

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