A male ultra-orthodox Jew would tell me: that if a woman so much as touches him he has to do ablutions again or he can't perform his prayers, or lay hand on a Torah or a Talmud.
A male orthodox Muslim would likewise tell me: that if he so much as touched a woman he also has to repeat the ablutions before he can orient himself toward Mecca and perform his prayers, or even lay hand on a Qur'an.
I would reply to both: that if I've touched a woman I no longer need ablutions, and if a woman has touched me I can skip the prayers altogether.
The common root for the Arabic "compassionate" and "merciful" is the word WOMB, and it is no accident or coincidence that the cleft in the big cubic Ka'aba holding the sacred black stone for so many centuries, still kissed by throngs of worshippers, strongly resembles a YONI.
The orthodox male is terrified not merely of the power of a woman or of her sexuality - he is terrified of her divinity. Terrified enough to regard her as "weaker," as second order, and as the sexual trap reflecting his own underdeveloped, unevolved ego - so that she remains for him "sexual" in order that he can "master" that in her. (She becomes for him: master-bait.) So he cloisters her or throws a burka over her, beats or brutalizes or humiliates her, owns her or pimps her, or keeps her barefoot and pregnant, or shoots her or pours acid on her, or marries her off to the nearest cousin. Anything but see a partner in her - and why? Because he is "God" - and naturally "God hath no partners"...
The relegating of woman to second or third class citizen in the Name of God will wind up in the dustbin of history, and we will even see women standing in the Catholic pulpits as they once had done among the very earliest Christians - this or the Vatican will crumble once and for all.
The Aquarian Age has arrived.
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