Women are Equal

But They Aren’t

This post is in response to the January 23, 2025 poll. Lots of things have been happening. I’m fine. New laptop, trouble signing in. We have migrated south for a month or so for the winter. So with all the upheaval, I’ve been offline. The results of the January 30, 2025 poll are now posted. Be sure to vote on the new poll which will close February 27, 2025.

Hubbard’s teachings state that there is no such thing as sexual orientation in a man and a woman. Much like the fact that he claims children are simply adults in small bodies, all thetans, according to him, are equal no matter what type of physical body they inhabit. But what he preached and how he Scientology acts are two different things.

Unfortunately, that’s not what really happened in Scientology. In real life, Hubbard would post women in the same posts as men, he even insisted they be called “sir” in those positions. No one was to be differentiated. But, he made sure to differentiate in his writings as well as in his outward treatment of women.

As a woman in Scientology, I wasn’t a second class citizen, I was way below that level. I was an ignored population. Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health should have been enough of an eye opener that I ran away from Scientology. He made it a point to paint women as helpless at best, hysterical at worst.

Unfortunately, DMSMH was so dense, that most people who read the book do not even make it all the way through. That means they miss such gems as

Attempted abortion is very common. And remarkably lacking in success. The mother, every time she injures the child in such a fiendish fashion, is actually penalizing herself. Morning sickness is entirely engramic, so far as can be discovered, since clears have not so far experienced it during their own pregnancies. And the act of vomiting because of pregnancy is via contagion of aberration. Actual illness generally results only when mother has been interfering with the child either by douches or knitting needles or some such thing.

The book is full of women who have either attempted or successfully aborted their child. Small wonder that Scientology sees nothing wrong with forcing women who are employed by them to have an abortion rather than have their child. But – that’s not all. Even the wedding ceremony is condescending to the woman.

The woman must obey the man, allow him to have affairs, because that’s just how men are, and the man must treat the poor little woman like a piece of porcelain and cater to her whims. Don’t believe it? This is the partial text of the eight page drivel of a wedding ceremony I had to endure:

Now, (groom’s name),
girls need clothes
And food and
Tender happiness and frills
A pan, a comb,
perhaps a cat
All caprice if you will
But still
They need them.
Do you then
Provide?
Do you?
(Answer)
Hear well, sweet
(bride’s name),
For promise binds
Young men are free
and may forget
Remind him then
That you may have
Necessities and follies, too.

I could go on forever, quoting Hubbard’s writings and just how much I ignored and how belittled I became before I escaped, but I’m going to leave you with this gem. According to Hubbard, please don’t rape your wife while she’s pregnant. It will cause harm to the child.

A woman who is pregnant should be given every consideration by a society which has any feeling for its future generations. If she falls, she should be helped — but silently. She must not be expected to carry heavy things. And she should not have coitus forced upon her. For every coital experience is an engram in the child during pregnancy.