What is Porphyry saying?
Who is the "wretched woman" and the "wretched woman" she is talking about, and why in the patriarch's value system did she receive such low marks - the wretched woman and the poor woman? They almost think you're in some biblical allegory. As if, after all, it matters who she is personally. Of course, these words from a patriarch would not be "worthy" if it were not - first of all, a woman. Who is talking about something... And that, look at the sin, from her own head. And which the patriarch obviously doesn't like. And she, suddenly, became - "wretched and poor". About the patriarch, Njegoševski: "And I wouldn't believe him if he told me that milk is white..."
The patriarch who was said to be a "rocker" and an "unconventional" figure, a priest who once charmed demanding Zagreb, actually appears in the most conservative possible light. If this is how an "unconventional" priest thinks, imagine what the conventional ones think, that is, as such, a certain persuasive majority.
The patriarch is concerned about gender-sensitive language. Listen please! Although he still chooses to call the woman (it is said that he meant one, specific person) unmistakably a wretch and a wretch and not a wretch or a wretch.
That kind of linguistic attention is so ordinary, normal, probably healing, but for some reason it annoys many. Even a patriarch. You often come across women who refuse this type of language intervention. Never underestimate the power of inertia. The principle of trodden shoes... The language you indulge in, so much so that it eventually speaks for you. People fear language that demands precision and truthfulness. Which is looking for the most important thing - your participation in reality.
The idea of controlling the language is always dangerous. And it is usually most effective when working with rhetoric about linguistic tradition, which, such people believe, should be preserved. And that, it follows, will protect us from dangerous changes. And for a patriarch (or king), change is undoubtedly the most hated word.
The idea of a gender-sensitive language did not arise the day before yesterday in the White House or the Vatican (and with the intention of hitting the foundations of Orthodoxy, of course), but is the fruit and logical consequence of centuries of insights from the brightest minds of humanity. Admittedly, the world to which the patriarch belongs mostly slept through those centuries.
The announcement of the SPC only confirmed the reasons for the public's fear - tirelessly cynical and arrogant. I can hardly hide my happiness and enjoyment because of the fact that this patriarch's speech annoyed all those women who are not afraid of this type of male authority.
Finally, we must not lose sight of the fact that monotheism is a profoundly anti-feminine worldview. Such is its genesis, its political history, its unsurpassed manipulative potential...
Despite concerns from all sides, aggression in public speech is increasing. How dangerous is it when such anti-women attitudes come with the so-called reputable addresses? The need to publicly humiliate someone always speaks volumes about the person doing it.
When some unknown auditor says that, the public reacts, but there are no reactions, or they are very restrained, if such a high church official says such a thing. That is, the spiritual half-world trusts this kind of authority, and is therefore encouraged to reproduce the "thoughts" of dubious spiritualists. I say doubtful, because I cannot believe in the existence of any spirituality where there is a need to humiliate anyone, let alone an entire race.
There is aggression even where you don't expect it. Even in the once most gentlemanly sport.
It's getting hard to watch Đoković how he curses his co-workers, coach, brother... so unaesthetic, unchivalrous and untennis-like. He's been doing this at almost every tournament for the past few months. The picture is ugly and sad - it's always like that when someone humiliates the people they pay. A great tennis player should be as dignified at the end of his career as he was at the beginning. Something doesn't work for him.
Maybe the patriarch should talk to him?
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