Do Women Have Souls?
A Note from the Author
To the reader who seeks nuance: I am aware that these words speak in broad strokes about ‘men’ and ‘women.’ Please understand that this is a deliberate choice. I am not describing individual souls but archetypes and historical systems of power. I speak of ‘man’ as the architect of a dominant worldview and ‘woman’ as the force too often confined to its margins. The generalizations I use are a mirror held up to a millennia-old pattern, not a precise map of every human heart. I aim not to deny individual complexity but to illuminate the pervasive structure that has, for so long, defined our world.
Maybe the Soul is Not What Men Think
Perhaps the soul is not some invisible marble inside us, but just a story men told themselves to feel bigger than the dust they’re made of.
When I look around, it’s mostly men who stand in the middle of the room and ask, with a loud, heroic voice, “Is there a God? What is the soul? What is the meaning of it all?” as if the universe were obliged to answer their questions first.
The Ego Costume
They turned the soul into a kind of superhero costume for the ego: rational, eternal, special, chosen, closer to God than animals, closer to God than women, closer to God than anyone who doesn’t talk like them.
For centuries they built cathedrals of theology, councils, philosophies, and arguments, while women were kept busy surviving: raising children, washing the dishes, wiping the old, and holding families and whole societies together in the background.
Men and Women’s Souls
In that male script, the “soul of man” is always front and centre, defined, argued, and immortalized, while the “soul of woman” is vague, secondary, almost an afterthought, as if she doesn’t really need metaphysics because her job is just to believe, to support, and to obey.
So yes, in that narrow construct, you could even say women “have no soul”, not because they’re empty, but because the word “soul” was never written for them; it was a mirror where men admired themselves.
But the irony is that women are actually the full ones. They don’t waste as much time inflating their inner life with grand theories; they live the reality those theories try to imitate: love, sacrifice, endurance, creation, grief, silent courage, all without needing to wrap it in big shining concepts.
Practice vs. Preaching
Men preach about God, eternity, salvation, meaning. Women, most of the time, practice whatever those words are supposed to mean when the sermon is over and the real world starts again.
So maybe the truth is simple and cruel. What we call “the soul” is mostly the noise of male fear of death and male hunger for importance, and beside that noise walk millions of women who never asked to be included in that myth, because they were too busy carrying life itself.
Power, Insults, and Social Control
The soul is a male construction, and sexual sins are designed for men to control women; calling a woman a b*tch is a profound insult intended to annihilate the social proof of women.
That’s why a man who is a b*tch, and most of them are, would not refuse a side-track if the occasion smiles… but is not “the same”; it’s “socially acceptable”… Yes, because the insult was first designed to hurt woman…
Most men will at occasion slander against a woman: “B*tch!” without even thinking of the heaviness and injustice perpetuated by this term.
No women should be called like that… ever… not in public, at least. No women is one, and the “real ones” are actually workers, honorable workers that do one of the most difficult jobs on earth; not even your dentist, nor your massotherapist, nor your psychologist is so intimate as a “real one” that works with her body, very often at her own soul and body burning out…
Society, Freedom, and Control
The machist society has called evil this practice in order to subdue women's power… if a women wants to sell her body, it’s “bad”… yeah… it’s very dangerous because a free women selling her body is a powerful woman; she had to be controlled and demeaned in order to deny her the power she has over man…
Still a lot of women figured it out and to their merit they outsmart the system without the stigma…
God, Eve, and the Apple
Soul or not soul, God or not God seems to be a question that interest man in particular. well, imagine God want to talk to Eve first… because… well, if I was Him, I would choose to talk to a beautiful women instead of a guy…
And let’s go back to the apple… Eve had a sin, an action sin: giving the apple, thinking it is good; she didn’t actually think about it… But then Adam eats it with the full knowledge that it is forbidden.
The sin of Eve is of the body (eating), whereas the sin of Adam is of the mind (doing wrong). Maybe that explains that since then Adam is still thinking about eating the apple, whereas Eve is just picking up any apple for him, thinking is good.
Thanks for the quotes! 👍
"Woman is strong and wholly what she is, and she experiences the Man and the sons only in relation to herself and her ordained role. In the masculine being, on the contrary, there is a certain contradiction; he is this man, and he is something else besides, which woman neither understands nor admits, which she feels as robbery and violence upon that which to her is holiest. This secret and fundamental war of the sexes has gone on ever since there were sexes, and will continue - silent, bitter, unforgiving, pitiless - while they continue."
—The Decline of the West, vol. II, Perspectives of World History
"The man climbs up in his history until he has the future of a country in his hands - and then woman comes and forces him to his knees. Peoples and states may go down in ruin over it, but she in her history has conquered. This, in the last analysis, is always the aim of political ambition in a woman of race."
—Ibid
"A little woman pursuing her vengeance would force overtake even Fate itself."
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“But the man who is not superficial, who has depth of thought as well as of purpose, the depth which not only makes him desire right but endows him with determination and strength to do right, must always look on woman from the oriental standpoint:- as a possession, as private property, as something born to serve and be dependent on him ... What a necessary, logical, desirable growth for mankind! if we could only attain to it ourselves!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
"If the discontented, bitter and grumbling-heads were denied reproduction, the earth could be enchanted into a garden of happiness. -This one rule belongs in a practical philosophy for the female sex."
—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche