Blog #13

What do you think of ecofemisnism before you read, and after? Did you have any strong reactions? What forms of dominance do you see in the world around you?

I didn't really have a disposition either supporting or against ecofeminism because I didn't really know what it was about, other than the obvious women's rights.  I think it is an interesting idea; I agree that women are more closely associated with nature than men are and I believe that women should be free as women.  Women don't need to be considered equal to men but they are very important and deserve their own freedoms as well.  I don't think that men are greater than women, but the way our patriarchal society is set up allows for that idea to exist.
I think in an ideal society the ideas behind ecofeminism could work.  There is evidence that it used to work in the past; many deities were female and highly revered, such as fertility goddesses.  Our society would have to undergo a major transformation in the way we think about social structure and the way we view women. 
Dominance is all over the world.  Many people believe men are the dominant sex.  White people are viewed as the "dominant" race in Western culture, but in some Middle-Eastern countries white people are on the bottom of the totem pole.  Humans are viewed as dominant over nature in Western culture. It seems part of nature for dominance to exist; lions are the "king of the jungle," sharks are one of the dominant predators of the sea, humans are considered the dominant species on the Earth because of our intelligence. Also, North Korea thinks they will one day dominate us, but that will never happen.