Jun 16, 2026 · 26 min · 8 segments
For most of ancient history, women were cast as treacherous and weakness-inducing — a view the Judeo-Christian tradition directly subverted by elevating women to authority, granting them enhanced…
Stephen MansfieldHostNow, let me tell you that the idea that men might be afraid of women is not something new.
Aboriginal men, for example, if you want to take time to do a little research, go back to Aboriginal men, early primitive man, all throughout the world, early primitive cultures, Australia, Africa, Asia, in what is now the Western Hemisphere.
even down to the point that their seminal blood, that their menstrual blood would be dangerous and toxic, that having sex with them would weaken a man and maybe even cause his parts to shrivel, not just his penis.
Women were always—it's an interesting dichotomy, it's an interesting combination—that women were feared and also put down.
As I've said before, their menstrual blood, some cultures believe that one touch, one drop of menstrual blood on a man would instantly cause him to go what we would now call cancerous and die.
Even as we get a little bit later in history, into the classical period and the great age of Greece and Rome, you have a denigration of women that really is a matter of fear.
Women were seen as lesser beings, and it was believed that they would weaken men if the men, for example, had intercourse with this.
I love that fathers and sons listen to this podcast, but I always want to give a little bit of a heads up if I'm going to talk about a few things.
It would have only been male students at that time and rarely did with women.
Now, let me tell you that the idea that men might be afraid of women is not something new.
Aboriginal men, for example, if you want to take time to do a little research, go back to Aboriginal men, early primitive man, all throughout the world, early primitive cultures, Australia, Africa, Asia, in what is now the Western Hemisphere.
even down to the point that their seminal blood, that their menstrual blood would be dangerous and toxic, that having sex with them would weaken a man and maybe even cause his parts to shrivel, not just his penis.
Women were always—it's an interesting dichotomy, it's an interesting combination—that women were feared and also put down.
As I've said before, their menstrual blood, some cultures believe that one touch, one drop of menstrual blood on a man would instantly cause him to go what we would now call cancerous and die.
Even as we get a little bit later in history, into the classical period and the great age of Greece and Rome, you have a denigration of women that really is a matter of fear.
Women were seen as lesser beings, and it was believed that they would weaken men if the men, for example, had intercourse with this.
I love that fathers and sons listen to this podcast, but I always want to give a little bit of a heads up if I'm going to talk about a few things.
It would have only been male students at that time and rarely did with women.
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