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reading an article in todays Sunday Star Times by Kymberlee Fernandes about Tongan artist "Ola Leha and her exhibition at AUT.
"Ofa Leha is taking a stand against the supposed ancient ritual from the middle ages regarding proof of virginity by a deflowering ritual.
good on her.
without a written record there is no guarantee whatsoever that this ritual is ancient.
and where did they get white sheets in the 1300's?
It seems as if this ritual is just another controlling act of the patriarchy aided and abetted by the adoption of christianity less than a century ago and a desire to present as having always been obedient and observant to some introduced but convenient method of controlling women.
This has been compounded by the work of one Derek Freeman who for reasons of his own took it upon himself to refute Margaret Meads seminal work "Coming Of Age In Samoa" which was swallowed whole and condemmed by the religious patriarchy and rejected over the whole of Polynesia.
Freeman was quite mad and was caught one night sawing of the penis from a wooden effigy in the Museum Of the South Pacific.
Freeman has been supported by journalists like Fairfax's Mike Fields who also seems to have some religious bias and thinks his own thoughts are facts.
Regarding ancient ritual Leha is recommended to read Meads book on Sex And Temperament In Three Primitive Societies.
Here she shows definitively how young girls are made to sleep with their father till their first menses where the practice ceases other wise the girl is used and eaten.
Trying to deny this aspect of human culture is not productive of understanding how we got be what we are when many think that doesn't matter.
"Ofa Leha is taking a stand against the supposed ancient ritual from the middle ages regarding proof of virginity by a deflowering ritual.
good on her.
without a written record there is no guarantee whatsoever that this ritual is ancient.
and where did they get white sheets in the 1300's?
It seems as if this ritual is just another controlling act of the patriarchy aided and abetted by the adoption of christianity less than a century ago and a desire to present as having always been obedient and observant to some introduced but convenient method of controlling women.
This has been compounded by the work of one Derek Freeman who for reasons of his own took it upon himself to refute Margaret Meads seminal work "Coming Of Age In Samoa" which was swallowed whole and condemmed by the religious patriarchy and rejected over the whole of Polynesia.
Freeman was quite mad and was caught one night sawing of the penis from a wooden effigy in the Museum Of the South Pacific.
Freeman has been supported by journalists like Fairfax's Mike Fields who also seems to have some religious bias and thinks his own thoughts are facts.
Regarding ancient ritual Leha is recommended to read Meads book on Sex And Temperament In Three Primitive Societies.
Here she shows definitively how young girls are made to sleep with their father till their first menses where the practice ceases other wise the girl is used and eaten.
Trying to deny this aspect of human culture is not productive of understanding how we got be what we are when many think that doesn't matter.
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