Linda Sexson

For all of you who missed class last Thursday we had Linda Sexson as a guessed speaker. She is a Professor in the Religious Studies department and tells me that "she knows" Shaman Sexson as well.

Now onto the Lecture. Genius seems to travel between the Sexsons. I believed I learned more about the literal viewpoint of the bible in 75 minutes than I've ever known. In fact that 75 minutes probably supports about 3/4's of it.

Linda started out her lecture by pointing to the fact that she would be referring to women in two very different ways;

when she said "Feminine", it referred to the metaphoric or symbolic woman.

when she said "Women", it refereed to social and cultural distinction or roles laid to a "woman".

She did this all before saying:

"We never know if we are talking symbolically or historically"

Rolling her shoulders up to a shrug, raising her arms, her hands above her head, manifesting the towering bible over all of us.

"Adam and Eve is a symbolical story about Masculinity's rule over femininity"

She spouts, strolling to the blackboard, chalk in hand, where she begins drawing a rather lucid Sexson drawing of a man lying upon the ground. above him a rib floats in the air, with a string attaching it to the white silhouetted dummy lying down upon the board.

"Why does woman come from man"

She asks? Roaming up and down the rows of students. Wrong answer after wrong answer leads to silence.

"it's a metaphor for how everything feminine comes from masculinity"

Mayan asserts precisely. I turn to see her flip her bangs, shuffle her feet.

"YES. Adam and Eve is a symbolical story of masculinity's dominance over femininity. It's called a Couvade-"

She stops talking sharply. Scrape it across the board.

"French for "men's envy of childbirth"

And I realized that I am actually jealous of not being able to bear a child.

"The rib stands for femininity being taken from masculinity. Now, something about the Bible you need to know. All the gods stand for abstractions of human thought. As well the bible is a Patriarch, where masculinity is the head patriarch and femininity is everything that serves him. Everyone is feminine; most men or women are women, Kids, younger brothers, women."

She then goes onto explain how in Judges the Levite gentleman in Jebusites who gives out his concubine does it because he is the head of the patriarch, and everything else is "less" important than the provider.

At this point I became so enthralled that I stopped taking notes and listened. But she did clear something up for me

Lot and his daughters is a joke about how the two tribes (named after the sons) are incestuous!