A friend of mine posted on Facebook his disgust at finding expressed breast milk bottles in the fridge at work. He was very denigrating, used the phrase "teat secretions" and compared the milk to other bodily fluids such as urine, blood or semen.He didn't feel like he should be exposed to the sight.

My 1st thought was to agree with him, these are results (and the known action that produced them) that should be hidden. Then I stopped myself and asked where that thought had come from. Instantly, I knew it came from our male-dominated society, which requires all bodily functions of the female, other than sex or beauty, be kept out of sight. We don't pee, we don't fart, we don't shit, and breast-feeding is a private activity.

I saw a vision of Crusaders wiping out a village, pulling babes from their mothers' arms & killing them, throwing the women down & raping them; then laughing about how they're in shock, crying and "leaking."  Beating them for their emotions and their bodily functions.

I got angry. I got very angry, especially when I realized how many centuries this has been going on.

Pregnant and nursing women, and infant/young humans, require protection.  The majority of men understand & accept this. Our "leaders" and their bullying troops use that vulnerability to ascend to power. With their mouths, they praise the sanctity of motherhood and children, but their actions expose the lie.

A woman and her brats -- excluding the man who co-created those "brats" and put her in that position of need & vulnerability.

All the societal rules, meant to protect initially, became a means of oppression. From my Feminist Philosophy course, back in the 80s: The police (mostly men) and the judicial system (mostly men) are there to protect you from criminals --- (mostly) other men! Closed loop system. Catch-22. Please the men or suffer the consequences.

Economic equality & birth control are the greatest emancipators of women.

I can analyze this 2 ways. I can see it as a way to remove power from women and make them dependent on men for their very lives.  Or, I can see it as a way to control other men.

This is terrorism, pure & simple. This is bullying - bullying 51% of the human race.

My 1st question is: Why is it so necessary to keep women from power? Even the Church, supposedly a Spiritual Entity, does everything it can to keep women at a lower level of spiritual empowerment.

Another thought -- this is a way to control production. If you control those who produce the next generation - the most valuable commodity in the world -- you control everything.

But why, then, does the same power structure devalue children so much? Why do they condone armies killing children, selling children into slavery?  Ah!  They want to control the children - control the next generation.

Power & control.

Terrorists and other thugs "win" because they do outrageous, unthinkable things before anybody can defend against them -- like snatching a schoolgirl off a bus & beating her half to death.  People are so frightened by the raging violence of their actions that they don't/can't stand up to them or stop them.

How is this any different?