In
the reading, Beyond God the Father, by Mary Daly, she starts off by explaining the
biblical image of who God is. Daly writes the He is in fact a patriarchal image
and that idea has led to the oppression of women in society. She goes on to
explain that this exactly why things are the way they are. It is supposed to be
the “natural” order of things, that God intended it to be this way. From all
the teachings, we have learned about Daly in class and from the readings that
talk about Daly’s point of view, this proves that Daly is not fond of this “natural”
order and Daly is going to question is as much as she can, being the die-hard
feminist that she is.
Daly also points out something I
found to be very interesting. She goes on to talk about how there are still
some individuals who are persistent with the idea that the liberation of women
will create new characters who have the same old roles leading women to remain stagnate
in society; that their roles and expectations will not change. Daly’s reasoning
behind this idea is based on the observation that there really is not a whole
lot of women taking up “men” or “masculine” jobs. These jobs Daly mentions
include judges, lawyers, doctors, etc. and if they do happen to break through
these social stereotypes, the best training they should receive will come from a
man Basically, any job that has women calling the shots, and any women in these
fields were more than likely trained by male.
