Ecofeminism is the in the intersection between ecological issues and women issues both that are a result of a male dominated society. This image below is a visual representation of ecofeminism.
I think that eco-feminism is important because like women, nature is often taken advantage of and exploited by men for their gain. The reason I believe people say mother nature is because it goes back to the old ideas of what femininity is. These concepts allow for people to make justifications and excuses for destroying the planet we all live in. Ecofeminism is the connection between feminism and nature. Hobgood-Oster and Warren further explore this topic through the historical relevance of this connect and how there are so many connections between feminism and nature and how that impacts people’s understanding of both and how because of the male partocracy they both are been put a lower status.
I think Hobgood-Oster does a good job connecting women to the earth especially when she brings it back to mythology and the bible. Hobgood-Oster states, “The mother goddess, whose body often birthed or constituted the earth, became the target of the powerful sky gods, as evidenced by such creation stories as the Babylonian Enuma Elish. The pattern of male deities killing female or animal deities in an effort to establish a patriarchal order and to control forces assumed to be chaotic repeats itself consistently. The snake, once a symbol of life, was trampled under the foot of the male deity and connected to evil. Hell was in the earth and Heaven was removed to the sky. Paradise lost its materiality and became a masculine, hierarchical projection.” (Hobgood-Oster). This helps illustrate the need for ecofeminism. The symbolism of women with nature has become corrupted by male dominance. I think that toxic masculinity was created for men to feel more powerful over everyone and everything. Having nature associated with women gives the impression that both don’t matter and deserve less respect than men.
When Warren talks about women-nature connection and brought up symbolic connections I think that this is important to show the important need for ecofeminism. When Warren stated “Women are often described in animal terms (e.g., like cows, foxes, chicks, serpents, bitches, beavers, old bats, pussycats, cats, birdbrains, hare-brains). Nature is often described in female and sexual terms: nature is raped, mastered, conquered, controlled, mined.” (Warren). These toxics terms that women have to indoor is just another systematic way of under minding their intellect. I that the way people refer to women in this day and age is more derogatory terms and they used nature as a way to do it. Ecofeminism is the way to redefine the way we talk about women and through that rebranding we will also help the environment. Because the connection between women and nature is known, so when people start treating women with the same respect as men nature will get the nurturing it deserves.