[fe]male virgins mutatis mutandis op hoopjes .....


Vreemde
vogels dus
al met al die verschillende soorten
van joden, christenen, moslims, hindoes, boeddhisten
& alle andere gelovigen & ongelovigen in wat dan ook!
Allemaal gewone mensen,
maar toch: very
"strange"!!!

Moeilijk
om algemeen
menselijke zaken te
scheiden van al die 'bijgelovige',
bovennatuurlijke &
symbolische?

In early
Christianity for men,
the pursuit of Christian ascesis
entailed the rejection of public life
and therefore of the hierarchies of office and gender;
in this respect their opponents were not far off the mark when
the insinuated that male ascetics were 'feminized' through their rejection
of the most basic cultural expressions
of male identity!

Sulpicius Severus,
a Gallic ascetic synchronous
with our talmudic text [zie ook allerlei voorgaande mydiverhaaltjes i/d afgelopen jaren],
like Ambrose, his contemporary & associate explicitly identifies women, and especially virginal women,
as his models for the ascetic life of retirement & withdrawal
from public exposure & activity.

Sulpicius' special interest
in virginal women is in large part attributable, to the fact that it is women in general
& virginal women in particular who traditionally model the life
of complete retirement & avoidance
of public exposure.

Thus Sulpicius puts forth
the radical suggestion that the male
must indeed "become female" through his ascetic renunciation of public life
and presents the virgin as an ideal of which Martin of Tours the soldier/monk
who brought Christianity to much of the fourth-century Gaul
acknowledges himself to fall short, compromised
by his episcopal office and also
by his very maleness.

A
male must
'become female' in
order to escape the moral
dangers of his masculine state!
It should be noted for clarity that the quotation marks around "become female"
are not meant to indicate a quotation of Sulpicius, but rather precisely
the appropriation of another
culture's terms to
interpret his
practice.

The
admiration of
both Sulpicius and Ambrose
for Paulinus of Nora, a wealthy and cultivated poet ~ and disciple of Ausonius ~
who renounced his wealth, together with his wife,
and retired to rural Italy,
is emblemic of
this position.

This
parallels the
becoming female of the Rabbis
through their ascetic renunciations of intercourse
with alluring Christianity or participation in
the Roman
state.

The
Rabbis, as
well, adopted distinctly
feminized stances of renunciation of political power.
In the talmudic text, the Rabbis are close, mutatis mutandis, to those ascetics for whom the virgin
was a model for a life of withdrawal from public exposure ~ mutatis mutandis,
for the withdrawal of a Roman aristocrat from the public
could not be identical to the withdrawal
of a Jewish
Sage.

Insofar
as the female virgin
was being utilized by male cultural products as a mode of negotiation of their critical, resisting, accomodating, alienated, envious, and other stances toward Roman power
and cultural prestige, different positionings
with respect to "Rome" would result in
different virgins?

Kortom:
vreemde vogels,
cultuurveranderingen, underground movements,
social change{s} & allerlei andere {r}evolutions
gedurende de afgelopen
tweeduizend jaar!

Het
probleem met
'priesters' e.d. ligt
nog maar al te vaak in 't peil hunner manlijke hormonen
& protestantse dominees zijn ook soms overspelig
als de pest, nog afgezien van hun multinationals,
financiele malversaties & al die
andere malle
kunsten?!

Als
overbevolking
't grootste menselijke probleem
is naast de rechtvaardiger verdeling van geld en goed,
dan is het dus best wel dienstig om een en ander te zien in het licht der afgelopen tientallen eeuwen,
en natuurlijk de stand der wetenschap, missionaire zendingsactiviteiten met kruis & zwaard,
diverse heethooften & al die merkwaardige variabele staartjes die
al die religieuze muisjes schijnen te hebben op andere plaatsen
& de voorbije tijden vol opmerkelijke gedragspatronen,
koddige klederdrachten, fanatieke
verkondigingen & politieke bij-
verschijnselen
...

Eerst
dus maar
eventjes een eindje
gaan fietsen en/of lopen
naar zand &
bos.

blozen
engel
cool!
OK!
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