"Sacred #Jewish texts almost always refer to God using masculine imagery and grammar. God is routinely referred to with #male metaphors — Father, Lord, King — and with male pronouns. #Hebrew being a #gendered #language, references to God are nearly always conjugated with masculine verbs and pronouns. The standard formulation for a Jewish blessing, Barukh atah adonai (Blessed are you God), uses the male form of you (atah) and refers to God as melekh (king). Some texts even explicitly refer to God as a man, perhaps most famously Exodus 15:3: “God is a man of war.” This is true despite the fact that mainstream Jewish #theology does not believe God has a body or a #gender.

In recent decades, Jewish #feminists have argued that not only is this language inconsistent with the Jewish understanding of what God is (and is not), but it also reifies the second-class status #women have long occupied in Jewish life."

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/alternatives-to-masculine-god-language/

Ngl, going through #male #content on #Instagram is kind of cringe at times.

Don't get me wrong, I love the #MensMentalHealth memes, the #positivity content, the #ToxicMasculinity satire, all of that is good.

But the copium of divorced dads across the board is so pungent in it's cringeness, even a goof like me has to tell you to have at least some dignity, some self respect.

You play #conservative, so shouldn't you be more reserved? Some of you mfs need to heal and don't know it.

If you've ever wondered why you've never seen herbal, vitamin, wonder-supplement, or other non-specified non-prescription sex pills advertised on ErosBlog, it's because they are fraudulent. It's always that simple. Remember this guy?

https://www.erosblog.com/2008/02/01/fake-penis-pills-turns-out-they-were-fake/

The Magellanic woodpecker is a large woodpecker found in southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. This species is mainly pure black, with a white wing patch and a grey, chisel-like beak. Males have a crimson head and crest.

#woodpecker #magellanicwoodpecker #magellanic #male #reflection #red #black #glass #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bird #birdphotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #artforsale #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/magellanic-woodpecker-patagonia-chile-joan-carroll.html

He's looking at something BIG but you can't see it yet.  #rickleone #muscularmale #male #wings #god #hermes

Say Hello to Captain Calico Jack!
Finish another Character for my Comic. I plan a lot

If these guys displayed such obnoxious behaviour in a civilized #egalitarian #African #huntergatherer society, they would be taken down mercilessly with #laughter and merriment -- almost always by older #women.

If they continued to throw their weight about with obnoxious #dominant #male behaviour, they would be taken OUT. Certainly in the Kalahari that could be done by a child with a poisoned arrow. Most likely by a bunch of hunters doing it together.

But if these guys had grown up in such a society, it's extremely unlikely they'd behave like such assholes. For tens and hundreds of thousands of years, women simply selected against obnoxious male dominance.

It is only a recent historic aberration in the life of our species, and most normal human beings know it.