We tolerate the ritualized silencing of women mandated by all major religions, which, with minor exceptions, bar girls and women from authority and mandate that access to the divine is mediated by exclusively male speech. This is by any definition gender-based suppression of speech that is legally unchallenged. From the moment a girl realizes that she is not invited to participate in clerical rituals, because she is a girl, she learns that her voice is powerless and not respected. At least we pay to undermine the public good through tax credits and subsidies.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:32:29 +0000