Daly says we will continue to be so unless we can

existence. Daly says we will continue to be so unless we can take back our power of
womanhood. The argument of many radical feminists is that men have forever been the cause of
women’s oppression and continue to do so throughout today’s society. It is the belief of some
that women must seize control of idea of what it is to be a woman. Per the thought of the radical
feminist, men have shaped women’s roles since the beginning of time. Women must now create
new roles and form a culture of their own to ensure freedom from a patriarchal system in which
they are raised.
Daly begins the section by saying "the church pretends to put woman on a pedestal but
which in reality prevents her from genuine self-fulfillment and from active, adult-sized
participation in society" (Daly,63). Christianity, she argues, is a "record of contradictions".
"every human person" is said to have equal worth, which then discredits any notion that woman
isn’t equal to men. In a sense silencing women through the power of the bible. "substitute for

recognition of full personhood and equal rights" (Daly,74). Putting women on this “pedestal” she
states is the Church's way of blinding women, it is a way to give the appearance of equal rights
without having to support equal rights.