Feminism and anarchy: A note on theology

"Divine love is selfless," it is said.

That is said not only of the Divine Father but the Virgin Mother, too. Socially, this mythology has given us infallible state authorities who punish both lacking deviance and refusal to acknowledge and submit to their power, and men who are determined to get what they want and expect women to be selflessly nurturant and giving without wanting anything for themselves. It has given us a culture of men and women who deny their own precarious vulnerability. Capitalism has been busy undermining that culture, with results at times painful and ultimately liberating.

That's one reason feminism has been revolutionary, and is not limited to the bourgeois identity politics of empowerment. Post-patriarchy is anarchy.

God's self-dispersion was heretofore almost always recuperated by power.