RLG303H1 Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality, Masculinity, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
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Historical association of women with evil properties and/or a fragility which leads itself to occupation by evil entities. Women as a bodily force through which evil can ct, and the actual. Gateway through which all humans pass during birth. Women cannot escape a physical connection to evil, du to their biology. Through this association, which has lasted centuries, and which does still exist today, investigators of the concept of evil have been largely superficial. Not only are these portrayals of women wrong, they are damaging and detrimental . ^nature, childbirth, attending to the bodily needs of others. Women considered responsible for men"s morality in terms of sexual desire. If a man finds himself aroused by a woman, it is not his desire which is considered culpable, but her temptation. General association of women as sexual beings (sex = body) Women serve as scapegoats for the evil men fear in themselves (noddings, 37)
