1970_11 The Daily Collegian November 1970

              GOD IS A MAN?
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Tuea
Men make gods; women are taught to worship them
By Jeanne Strang
•Is God a woman?*
•The last Ume I talked to God
recently, but this half-serious
repartee Is often made by members of Women's Liberation
groups to make a point. The only
reason we think God Is male Is
because we have been told by
men throughout history that this
was so. It is possible that God Is
Indeed a woman.
But the Jest is also designed to
make people re-thlnk. The next
quesUon, then, Is: Did God Invent
man and then woman? Ordld man
Invent a male God as a tool to
mold women, using Pygmallon-
llke coercion and force to shape
his concept of the perfect woman?
taught to worship them, says a
character In a Jean-Paul Sartre
Play.
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Op*fl Friday Evenings
superior to the female and moth-
Thls Idea that something could
be created without women became man's quest. He is sUU
trying to create a world without
women as* necessary and equal
partners. The male still views the
woman as a vehicle for him.
Once the Idea of one male God
was Implanted It followed that a
Bible written by men should be
used for Interpretation of moral
Eve condemned
The story of Adam and Eve
was designed to put the last padlock on women's freedom. The
fable   told   how   God   made  the
desire to survive death.
Men reasoned that the women
and children ate the crops he
planted, in the farming communities, and thereby they were
his property.
John Stuart Mill in his book
•The SubjecUon of Women,* envisions another element in the
subjugation of women. It Is Instinct, he wrote, for women to
give love and affection to something formed out of their own
bodies; both female and male.
) learn to receive
I working li
of children
home took up
night. This  effectively kept the
woman from having any outside
If tt
d tlm.
- t*
look  I.
another adult w
be  unfaithful
be killed by he
llcly stoned to death. If the man
was   unfaithful   the  woman  was
told It was the nature of man and
she must endure the burden.
Being locked up In the house
the wife had little freedom or
chances to become an Individual.
She could only tbe a secondary
being through her husband. For
he brought her her only contact
with  society.
domination. Most women came to
accept this distortion and mea.
sured themselves and otherwom.
en through the values of men.
Many women today are SUU hung]
up on men's values. Women hav(
never established their own vil.
ues, but have been forced to ac
cept the values men made for
them.      -
And If a woman dared to rebel
•By complete possession and
control women would be abased
to the rank of a thing;
n his o
■   the
'emales Into Ihe wor
There are those, r
Into believing :
male establish
malning faithful
BUM   (
w life through a i
.   Al-
1  disobeyed the
'inally giving In.
the Bible was
and translated h
Identity removal
movat of her Identity. The woman, figured the male, since she
was a sinful creature, should
- gracefully and gratefully give up
Women are still giving upihelr
fathers' name for their husbands'
name and thereby are allowed to
e status through the m
I of society. The
husband was the looking glass
for her. Whether the male chose
to give her approval or disapproval was coldly calculated In
favor of the man's world.
•Since the oppression of women has Its cause in Ihe will to
perpetuate the family and to keep
the patrimony Intact, woman escapes complete dependency to the
degree   in   which   she   escapes
Beauvolr In 'The Second Sex."
In passing from father to hus-
measured through the will of male
possesses. How to make the wife
at once a servant and a compan.
Ion Is one of the problems he
will seek to solve.*-Slmone de
Beauvolr In 'The Second Sex.*
Economics were and are con-
trolled by men. Religion was and
Is established and administered
by men. The Bible was written
^and interpreted by men. The custom of marriage was established
i. The tl
yslcal and politii
i had little
it their fre
written
LISTENING
The t
explalne
side and the       of rr
ill. The God
n surmised,
I   fatherhood
were his seed and should ■
take his name. For only through
the branding of women and children could the male gain Immortality. There was no doubt, being
physically obvious, who was the
mother; hut  the male only knew
Underground record market
is alive and doing well
S that J
s soon as the physiological
if paternity is known, the r
ion of a patriarchal society';
resembling
(fortunately for those who loved
ilss the •Jumpln'
there  are  rela-
Ively few albums left as a legacy.
mately,   there  has  been  a
In the black
anything e'
111.
of the best live material ever
recorded. Like all underground
records, the quality suffers In
certain   aspects. For one thing,
Make no
mistake
about
this...
:t couple of months,
.fDyl.l
-i, IV.lt
The Stones'
•LlveR Than Y
the Beatles' "Get Bat
labels,    particularly
sought to have stiff penaltl
pirating   rec<
less   and  instead  of
t least five different
I   recordings featur-
manyof the well-mixed products
of the legitimate record business. Any performance has the
problem of mixing Ihe sound so
balance. The end result is seldom satisfactory to the entire
audience  and   usually the sound
)   the  other  h
by a
t of th
stature of Hendrlx. the audience
will clap along with numbers that
the vocals are usually almost
subliminal. The recording was
made of the April 25. 1970 performance    and    features   Mitch
ing  Dylan  ;
p.ere Is or
Ms  Isle of
'Ight performance a
Mitchell
utterly    fantastic.    C
than he did oi
of Gypsys* :
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r— COLLEGIAN POLL-
Does Reagan's reelection fill you
with optimism or pessimism?
Last week Ronald Reagan was reelected for another four years as
governor of California, beating his Democratic challenger Jess
Unruh by over 500,000 votes. The Governor's race was of special
Interest to students on California State College campuses, since
decisions made In Sacramento concerning policies on higher education effect students. Today's Collegian Poll poses the quesUpn,
—■ victory of Ronald Reagan at the polls flU you with
optimise
>r pessimism?*
ft
Craig WUklm
jor: 'Optimism
1 like him.*
ft
e Vartebedlan, junior prelaw major: *N«
A little pessimism perhaps. The choice \
would have probably voted for Reagan.*
Chuck   Moulten,   graduate
"Philosophically, I think he's
doesn't  have very good advisors, but
ability to get away with these things. H
Irresponsible statements. He would have
better chicken-farmer."
la Aved, senior social welfare major: 'It
s me sick; I know there Is going to be an In-
"" m among other things."
B
slmlsm. I havi
rts major: "Pes-
n't had Ume to let the Initial shock
'm looking for a Job teaching next
t too thrilled.* m     j mtm
Debbie  KaUglan,   freshman  physical  educaUon
ajor: 'Optimism. I think Its fantastic and I think
e need more men Uke him In the United States,
e's for the people.*
a
-, 7              j           Fletcher Nlehause, graduate student art major:
L '   « ltt       -It   sort of  fills   me  with Indifference. I sort of
7 -AGja        figured   he'd win.  i  voted for the other fellow.lt
r     '. 1       was  a  token  vote. I voted so I could bitch about
J       Reagan.  Voting gives you the right to bitch.*
> by i
Everything he said about lowering the amount
people working In government and so on and
forth. The only reason that I would be against hi
*ould be that he allowed the Chlcanos to come lr
the Salinas valley and all this UFWOC bull—I
Jackie Spangler. sophomore poUUcal s
major: "pessimism. I figure It'll Just be mc
presslon for the students.*
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True Grit'
is a satire?
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    7
Tuesday, November 10, 1970
Campbell plays the guitar.
By Glen Michael Edwards
It was fortunate that it was
raining last Friday night when
■True Grit,* starring John
Wayne, was playing at. the CoUege •
Union. Not too many people
showed up and I had to face none
of my friends who may likewise
have gone to see the turkey. The
thing cost nothing to see, but.I
still felt cheated.
a satire on a John Wayne western
and I wanted to sue It for that
I forgot, though, that John
Wayne suffers from the delusion
that he actually Is John Wayne
and 1 should have further remembered that there Is no cure for a
disease of such magnitude. The
movie may have been a saUre—
If so It was a poor one—but John
Wayne undoubtedly took It serin case you are lucky and don't
know the story It concerns a
young girl who looks for a man
with 'true grit* to go out and kill
the man who shot her father.
John Wayne plays Rooster Cog-
burn, the man with true grit,
Kim Darby plays dumb, and Glen
of doe legal process, your old
friend, the Inscrutable Oriental
Laundry man, is there, and anything you may have neard about
Kim Darby at
Underground
(Continued from Page 6)
ly able to fill the shoes of Noel
Reddlngs. Mitch Mitchell, on the
other hand, Is obviously a much
finer drummer than Buddy Miles.
He doesn't present the problems
boring drunnlng and equally flat
vocals. The group Is far superior
to the Band of Gypsys and equal
If not better than the original
Experience.  .
On the Song 'Machine Gun,*
Jlml exhibits his ability to Jam
and leaves previous versions of
this number lying cold. "Voodoo
Chile* Is everything that can be
expected of that song and then
some. Jlml drawls 'Well I'm
standing next to a mountain, 1
knock It down with the edge of
my hand!" and the whole band
roars In on a roaring exclamation point. "Purple Haze,* *Foxey
Lady,* a twenty minute version
of "Room Full of Mirrors,""Easy
Rider,' "Message to Love,*
"Spanish Castle Magic,'"Getting
Your Brother's Shoes Together,"
•Getting My Heart Back Together
Again,' and 'The Star-spangled
e the ft
)f the ml
d. The only complaint
Is with the last, on which Jlml
hits a considerable number of
sour notes. It Is easy tooverlook
this In Ught of the fine performances on the rest of the album.
Jlml's raps with the audience are
another extra which professional
recordings leave out. If It wasn't
for the underground recording
business, this really fine album
would not be available. It's chill
ing  b
•If I
anymore In this
world, I'll see you In the next
one, Don't be late.*
For those who are not Inclined
to Usten to the flashing, crashing, bashing, smashing sound of
Hendrlx, the underground has
put out a couple of albums by
Crosby, StlUs, Nash and Young.
One of them Is called 'Wooden
Nickel." I have only heard part
of this album and so I will only
say that It Is not very refined.
The second, "Ohio", Is a strange
tracks of studio cuts and live
performances. The Utle song Is a
fine piece that sounds Uke It is
a re-recordlng of the 45 which
was banned from top 40 stations
And In all Christian charity I
can say that Glenn Campbell's
performance would make a buzzard puke.
All this sad experience goes to
show, children, that one should
not be gullible. I Imagine that
when the movie had been made
and the producers found themselves with five film cans of garbage, they decided to bill the
bomb as a satire and fleece the
yokels with that dodge. My only
consolation is that the movie
itself cost me nothing.
due to the fact It was, of course,
thought-provoking and a definite
no-no In the business. The song
deals with the Kent State incident
and reflections on Nixon and
company. The album also features some rather raw singing by
the group In Uve performances,
much Uke those on the 'Woodstock* soundtrack. On "Listen
Once Again to My Bluebird* we
get what sounds Uke half of a
recording session or 2 tracks of
a four track tape. This album is
rather odd. If you Uke C,S,N & Y
you'U want this album as a record
of progression. There *re a lot
of standards Uke 'Suite: Judy
Blue Eyes* and •SeaofMadness"
as well as some new things Uke
•Birds,* but the best entry Is
•Ohio,* with its "Tin soldiers and
Nixon's comln*,* Introductory
line.
The underground business will
depend upon whether the major
labels can bring enough pressure
to bear on the producers, whether
the quality la reasonable and the
recorded material is significant
enough to make It available to the
collector or general music buyer.
These last two should keep the
business going for awhile.
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