Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?
One woman can be written off by a culture always looking to judge and blame women.
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
