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Pipe ceremony 'moon time' rule stirs debate
University of Saskatchewan
Or, "Political Correctness Takes a Hit". Will wonders ever cease?
Did I ever tell ya, the first time I ever heard someone actually use the term "politically correct" to excuse themselves from acknowledging the truth, was from the mouth of a faculty member in the Native Studies Department at the U of S. The faculty member was herself an Aboriginal woman.
Me thinks there is a certain professor at my Alma Mater who should receive an email from me, if I can find his email address.
Pipe ceremony 'moon time' rule stirs debate
University of Saskatchewan
Or, "Political Correctness Takes a Hit". Will wonders ever cease?
Did I ever tell ya, the first time I ever heard someone actually use the term "politically correct" to excuse themselves from acknowledging the truth, was from the mouth of a faculty member in the Native Studies Department at the U of S. The faculty member was herself an Aboriginal woman.
Me thinks there is a certain professor at my Alma Mater who should receive an email from me, if I can find his email address.
Labels: AARRRRRRGGGHHHH, Indian Industry, Indian Mythology, political correctness, you can't make this shit up
posted by Louise at 8:01 am
3 Comments:
"Many aboriginal students and staff on campus were quick to point out that women are at their most powerful when menstruating because they have the ability to give life. Asking menstruating women to stay from the ceremony is about respect, Joan Greyeyes, special adviser to the U of S president on aboriginal issues, said."
Um, no dice with that excuse. I stayed awake long enough in my Biology classes to learn that ovulation takes place at about the mid-point between the end of the previous menstruation and the onset of the next. Theoretically 14 days after the ending of menstruation, in the 28 day feminine cycle. (And pregnancy isn't nine months, but a 280 day event (give or take a few days or week or so, individual variables), not by coincidence a ten complete feminine cycle event.)
I guess these Indians don't take Biology, Chemistry, etc., instead substituting "Indian Whining 101", "Indian Grievance Fakery 201", "Inventing Indian History and Customs 301", in getting their B.S. degree.
And in the late middle ages in Europe, the theory that explained the bubonic plague was that the Jews had poisoned the wells.
Sometimes relying on old superstitions and trying to spin something positive from them, backfires badly.
On the one hand, we're supposed to believe all this wisdom has been passed down, generation after generation, from time immemorial, and on the other were supposed to believe that old world diseases wiped out most of the population.
Hmmmm. Who was left to do the "passing down" I wonder?
Among some aboriginal groups the right to tell tribal lore is proprietary, like copyright. I wonder if only the holders of that proprietary right survived the plagues of imported diseases?
What I find amazing is the similarity of this practice to what happens to young Muslim girls who are menstruating. With Muslims, though, at least they are up front about their belief that females are "unclean" during their "moons".
"And in the late middle ages in Europe, the theory that explained the bubonic plague was that the Jews had poisoned the wells."
I learned a bit about the history of that, reading the conservative Israeli blog "Israel Matzav". When the plague hit, some Gentile communities noticed that the frequency of that plague was much less in the mainly enforced-segregated Jewish communities than among the Gentile majorities. Being generally superstitious, ignorant and generally antisemitic, many Gentiles jumped to the conclusion that the plague was caused somehow by those evil Jews. Good reason for another round of Gentile persecution of the Jews!
There was a disparity of rates of infection but the real reason for that was because of the generally far higher personal hygiene standards among the Jews, compared to the Gentiles. Regular bathing was a long-standing ancient ritual of Jewish religion-based custom, as was frequent hand-washing (before each of the daily ritual prayers, before all meals, etc.)
By contrast, we European Gentiles were generally a filthy bunch, rarely if ever bathing or washing our hands. So, naturally, the communicability of germs, bacteria-diseases in general-among the Gentiles was in general much higher than among the much cleaner Jews.
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