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Woman = unnatural / man = natural

In her explanation of  gynocidal  ritual, feminist theorist Mary  Daly  explains that in a patriarchal culture, society uses certain ritualistic behaviors (usually in the interest of enhancing female "beauty") to destroy female connections and to oppress women.* In these situations, women are often used as "token torturers". For instance, there was a saying during the days of Chinese  footbinding : "If a mother loves her daughter, she will take no mercy on her feet." Nope, instead she will torture and cripple her to make her palatable to a society infected with brainwashed men who wouldn't know a natural woman if she bit him on the ass and then ran away on her big ' ol  feet! * Discussion of  gynocidal  ritual can be found in Mary  Daly's  book,  Gyn /Ecology: the  Metaethics  of Radical Feminism. Source:  Only one Manda I love the way Amanda puts this. Great voice. Amanda wrote this while expressing her horror at a mother disseminating he