2304icky crowley quotes

[evile]

 

Jun. 23, 2004

 

 

I'm reading Lawrence Sutin's _Do What Thou Wilt_ and coming across
some stuff of Crowley's that I have problems with: his attitude
towards women as nothing but breeders mostly. I posted this on the
bratpage & got some nice feedback:

I'm reading a biography of Aleister Crowley (who IMHO was a pretty
cool guy) and then I came across this quote:

"women are nearly always conscious of an important part of their True
Will, the bearing of children. To them nothing else is serious in
comparison...."

Oh, ick. What's a good CF Thelemite Gal to do??

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Re: 40443 You recognize that Crowley, like Freud, was a product of
his time. His views on women are icky but also reflect the repression
common in the Victorian era. Okay, turtle, I promise not to respond
anymore.....
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A good CF Thelemite will act on what HER True Will is (namely living
the dream!), not what Crowley or anybody else tells her it is. If
anything, Thelema is a handy philosophy for a CF to embrace because
of it's value of the individual over groupthink, which is good to
remember when you're making a lifestyle choice that's no one else's
business but is socially unpopular anyway. If anything, Breederdom,
with it's emphasis on reproducing for conventional reasons (family
obligation, getting attention, etc.) as opposed to truly WANTING to
raise a child, is the perfect example of the slave-mentality. "Be
they damned and dead!"

Joys of Thelema aside, is the discussion board down again? I haven't
been able to load it up for the past two weeks.