Originally Posted by
Korath
Their exiles has stopped to be imposed thousands of years ago, when the men who forced them to seek refuge on the Island and their whole civilizations died. It is a fallacy to pretend that after thousands of years, the Amazons are seeking protection from cruel men outside. They have chosen to forge a segregating and isolationist society.
The Amazons are not simply a haven for hurt and maltreated women. They are not a place where those women could come, heal at their rythme and then return into the world to try and change it if they feel like it. The Amazons live on an island where contact with the outside world is shunned, where Men are essentialized as naturally inclined to being cruel, brutal and evil. The Amazons are victims who have decided that it was better to segregate themselves and stew and their pain and suffering instead of even trying to change the world after it hurt them. They are not, in any way, shape, or form, beacons of civlizations or shining examplars of human beings.
And I'll have you know that the Shaolin monks, like the Orthodox Priests, the Wiccan High Priest/ess, the Buddhist bonzes, etc. can be extremely scornful toward outsiders. For instance, in Greece's Mount Athos, an island-monestary, women are not allowed because they aren't pure enough. I guarantee you that the male priests and monks there won't have a high view of women and outsiders in general.
No. But White peoples and Amazons have had social constructs which promotes racism/misandry and in the case of the Amazons, it is still clearly the case.
And if Azzarello's amazons were real, they would be as depicted by him, precisely because isolationism and retreat from a "corrupt" world are dominant traits of their culture. Like in the Tokugawa's Japan.