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“Oh, I am afraid that will not be possible,” the priest tells me. “The Vessel has taken a vow of silence. We have made it so obedient that I am not sure it even realizes it has the ability to communicate.”
Is the vessel a metaphor for the way women are socialized? Espeially in religious settings. Being literally engineered into obedience. A body that does not belong to them. Just a vessel for life, for man?
Would they ever consider a woman worthy of housing God? Would they ever treat a man with such cruelty?
Are you saying that non-conformity is divine? If the god you revere so highly is beyond gender in their own Vessel, then is this what you are really scared of when you try to force us all into your gendered expectations? Are you scared that we will be more divine than you if you don’t try to strip us down to bodies? To our cells?
He may be a good husband, he might make a good father, but he is still a man. A vengeful, misguided man. A dangerous man.
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