They Huey P. Newton Reader

Eve, the mother ojall living
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the time of Genesis, the sex of the giants had been changed. And the
sacred fruit that reminded men of their eternal biological androgyny
was declared forever taboo.
The female could be best overthrown during pregnancy or just after
childbirth. When man discovered his role in procreation, he could then
attempt indirect coercion by the constant impregnation of the woman,
and direct control by the seizure of those goods and symbols that stood
for power.
Woman was slowly imprisoned in the very biology that had made
her supreme. She bore her fruit in pain, and she became a slave to the
now-physically superior male, just as earlier he had been her vassal
under the spell of her fecundity.
Men moved swiftly to the necessary dehumanizing of women: she
was the snake and the devil, the unclean and the freak of nature-all
the identities that man had labored under in a universe that was female
in principle. No wound to man's vanity was too small for restitution.
Genesis would be hilarious ifit were not such frightening evidence of
the historical male rage.
Once man was physically and mythologically compensated for his
former humiliation, he had to force on women a slave mentality and
crase fo rever any intimations of her former glory. Since the man's
exposed and erectile tissue could not naturally gratify or answer the
complex inner organism of the woman, she had to be desexualized.
The age-old whore/madonna strategy was the crude answer to the
stinging reminder of female superiority that was before his eyes every
day: she was always ready and therefore potent, while he, with his
exposed genitalia, was always potentially impotent, and his impotence
or inadequacy was called forth precisely by her biological readiness, at
almost any age!
So man, who could not give birth, began to invent everything else.
His "brain children" were all made possible by the art of writing; the
exclusion of women from that process meant that she dropped below
the level of history to live like an animal in a perpetual drudgery and
blows. The "masculine protest" suffered by women, corresponds in
many ways to the agony of Black people since the Renaissance.
Now the tables seem to be turning. Modern technology gives women
the upper hand once again. She does not need man as a father or a