A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Posted by: Jenny Penny in Anti-feminism, Russia, Sex and sexuality, Stupidity, What did you just say?!?!What’s with the asshats and their flower references? (more flower themed stupidity in previous post)
I often wish I read more languages so I could take on all the world’s dumbfuckery. Today, Natalia Antonova has done a great job of translating and taking on a Russian misogynist called Dmitrii Artemyev who concludes that International Woman’s Day is Teh Evil because:
I have to admit: the natural qualities of woman - for example, the ability to give birth, or, even more so, the ability to be a mother, raise children, and so on - may, perhaps, deserve respect and even admiration, though not in the form of a holiday. But this isn’t what we are talking about anyway; we would then celebrate Mother’s Day, or something along the same lines. Oh no, we are talking about the feminine in its most basic form. We are, factually, admiring the qualities of the feminine soul and body of the lowest, most sinful caliber. Female breasts, genitals, the womb - this is what we worship when we worship “woman.”
… This becomes apparent in the symbolism of the holiday. Women are given flowers, and the givers know well that a flower is a plant’s genital organ, opening up to be fertilized. A flower is a symbol of tempting lust. This is actually why having little flowers on your balconies is a sin, an innocent-seeming bouquet is an honest symbol of orgiastic sin, of group sex, and any interest or delight one might take in flowers is therefore sinful.
If you can smell a rose, this means you won’t be too disgusted to smell the unmentionable body parts of a woman - because this, at its essence, is the same thing.
So, according to Artemyev’s church (he’s a self-described Orthodox Christian) the Garden of Eden was, what, paved? Covered in manly concrete?
My eyes have rolled so far back in my head I need to sleep now.
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March 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I have never heard a priest speak the way Artemyev does. He doesn’t represent the church and his editors have made that clear (he has tried to speak from the church’s name in the past). They don’t want to get sued, and are keen on presenting his column as the opinion of a random dude who just happens to call himself an Orthodox Christian.
Unfortunately, other people like him do exist.
Anyway, thanks for the link-love! :-)