Women don’t even exist. Sez me.

by Audrey deCoursey

So, Sydney’s Anglican Archbishop has said that women are ‘equal but different.’

Does that sound familiar or what? ‘Separate but equal,’ ‘equal but different,’ whatever you want to call it – we can see through to the point, that (especially religious) folks cannot comprehend us humans all being one people, and they cannot comprehend us all being unique, so they have to arbitrarily divide humanity into two boxes, be those boxes drawn by sex, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Without those two boxes, they do not know how to act in the world, or how to interact with others. But we can also see that whenever those two boxes are drawn, they are never respected equally – and the ones doing the drawing seem to always draw their own box as the superior one.

When will we take a lesson from our own recent history to know that these differences, separations, distances, exist only because we keep reinscribing them, keep pulling us apart instead of realizing how much draws us together as one body of a multitude of parts, none identical and none disconnected from the rest?