Do you think that there's any truth to this?

[Anonymous]

[Subglacial]

I always found it weird, when I was younger, that the prime creator deity of any religion would be male given that women give birth.

As I thought about it, though, it made sense that if you were a stone-age farmer with no understanding of how human reproduction worked on a cellular level, you would probably liken pregnancy and birth to growing crops. Plants grow from seeds, and the type of seed determines the type of plant; the earth plays an essential role by incubating ang nourishing the seed, but it didn't create the seed and it can't change the type of plant that grows out of it.

So, yeah, but also not really. I think the idea of men being the creators and life-givers while women are just the incubators and the vessels is outdated and silly given what we know, but I don't think it's all just some millennia-long conspiracy to keep women in line.

[AviatorTom]

Medically speaking, there is no evidence that woman (Eve) came from the rib of a man (Adam).

"Most people have 24 ribs, with 12 on each side of the body. There is no evidence to show that there is a difference between males and females."

Yes, people are born from the woman, but both mother and father give life to their child. It takes two to create a child.

[AviatorTom]

Thanks for MHO

[Flatmanlewis]

I think it’s a semi-witty meme playing on a repackaged biblical verse. It comes off witty to a simpleton but doesn’t really make any point. Of course all humans come from a woman’s womb. There is absolutely no logical or real argument that men give birth, nor that men are the givers of life. (Mind you there is some trans idiocy in the world where people pretend this is the case but I’m limiting my response to reality.)


Men have never claimed to be the ‘givers of life’ in any meaningful way. Men may claim to be the provider, protector, and mentor of life but not the one giving life. In fact, the specific reference to the Bible does not imply Adam gave life “from his ribs” as if it were a womb (which is not the case) but “from his rib” as in God took a rib from Adam as a source. Life was from Gods power not Adam’s.


To me, it reads as an angry feminist meme trying to take a swipe at men and arguing a point that nobody is actually arguing.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Yes


If you speak to anyone with a base-level understanding of anthropology then you will learn how women were originally seen as vessels of the divine because of their ability to give birth and create life. All of their deities during this time were female, all worship was centered around feminine imagery. It wasn’t until people started to figure out that women who avoided men never gave birth that people were able to connect the dots and that’s when you started to see more male deities and a sudden shift religiously to focus on the male image. When men found out they had something to do with giving birth, I feel like that was the beginning of things getting objectively worse societally in my opinion.

[LazerBean]

Even people who support patriarchy and believe that Eve came from Adam's rib do not believe that man is the life giver. God is the life giver, and man simply provided the rib for his wife.

[b_lova]

There are scholars who say that is a horrible translation of the text and that the text should read that Eve was created from Adams side.

[JamesRandiDebates]

The father is the life giver. The woman is just an incubator

[strateguy632]

nope