by James Kanady
Pissed Off Again
When I was growing up in the 1960s, it was a fact that women were to be respected. Men stood up when a woman entered the room, and if wearing a hat, they removed it. Two small acts that say: you are honored.
Sadly, not today.
My social media presence is as small as a pimple on an ant’s butt, so when stories from that realm show up in national publications, it’s my first exposure. Like Andrew and Tristan Tate, who had been under a criminal investigation in Romania since 2022, were accused of coercing women into pornography, and Andrew was also accused of rape and having sex and beating a 15-year-old. They formed connections with advisors close to Donald Trump, including his sons, Baron and Donald Trump, Jr. Pressure was put on Romanian prosecutors, and the Tates were free to travel, flying to Florida on a private jet. (I urge all of you to find a detailed piece in the Dec. 10, 2025 New York Times by Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai that goes deep into the Tates’ behavior and their powerful connections. It’s stomach churning.)
Then on March 9, of this year two brothers, Tal and Oren Alexander, real estate brokers, were convicted of trafficking women and girls for sex. Eleven women testified about rape or sexual assault perpetrated by the brothers. After the verdict one juror said, “I’m numb, to say the least.”
Then I learned about misogynist incels and thought, how far into the dark side can this country go and still survive? These males (I refuse to call them men) are united by a male supremacist ideology that has, at its core, the dehumanization of women (the Southern Poverty Law Center has written extensively about this phenomenon on their website).
They see themselves as “ugly, socially awkward losers locked in the lowest caste of a social hierarchy and cursed to a lifetime of loneliness and involuntary celibacy.” Further, they believe women are hypergamous, meaning they choose sexual and romantic partners who are of higher status to elevate their own. Thus, women will never willingly choose to have sex with an incel, so they are being deprived of what they perceive as their right to sex. (My God, you just can’t make this crap up!)
In the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, they outline a plan that attacks a woman’s equality, which reminded me of a quote from Soraya Chemaly: male supremacism is arguably the beating heart of fascism.
Her aim is true.
Among indigenous people, women were sacred and respected; their role was as defined as males. They lived and worked together, knowing children needed both the male influence and the female, the yin and yang. The abuses I described earlier are aspects of a culture off the rails.
“The Gospel of The Beloved Companion—The Complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene” translated by Jehanne De Quillan shows how Mary was an intellectual and spiritual equal to Jesus and a key transmitter of his teachings, the interconnectedness of all living beings, the divine feminine and the necessity of inner transformation. Here, she is the embodiment of wisdom, compassion and a direct spiritual awakening. Gender relations are in balance; a transformative vision for men and women is right there on the page.
How grotesque our current culture is: an ugliness born by social media and its philosophy of male dimness and misogyny.
Perhaps women today need to organize based on the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo organized in Argentina in 1977 to oppose the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, responsible for thousands of disappearances and deaths. These women turned their grief into political action. Democracy returned in 1983, and the Mothers continued to march and protest until the military responsible for all that agony were brought to justice in 1985 in the Trial of the Juntas.
The Mothers refused to quit, and we shouldn’t, either.
To any conservative Christians who support these policies, I’ll close with this section from Jehanne De Quillan’s book:
“Where in any of the teachings of Yeshua/Jesus in this Gospel can one find any justification for the horrors that have been, and continue to be, perpetrated in his name? The Yeshua of this Gospel teaches only love, compassion, forgiveness and the Kingdom of God. Nowhere to be found are the historical judgments and justifications for persecution, torture and murder based on race, creed, color or gender that we have heard from Christian preachers of every denomination, the very ones who, by their own words, claim to represent him. Nowhere do we see a scriptural or philosophical basis for the blind misogyny and the subjugation or women that we have experienced for so many centuries.”
Selah.