Blog Post #7

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.