Women and the Evil Men Fear

In the beginning there was a guy named Adam and his girlfriend Eve. These two walked around naked all day, hanging out in an exclusive garden where their nudity wasn't an issue. There was just one stipulation to this life of freedom and carefree leisure - nobody touch the fruit off the big tree in the center.
Well, as we know the story, Evie listened to the snake, gave Adam the apple (who knew just as well not to eat it but did anyway!), and the rest is, as they say, biblical history (or folklore for all those who don't buy into the Bible tales, not that there's anything wrong with that!).
Well, I like to stir the pot whenever the spirit hits me. So, I was thinking, let's examine what the snake said to ol' Evie that convinced her to go against a direct order in the first place. I figure, an insight into what buttons that snake actually pushed in Eve's brain could be the key to what it is about women that men fear.
Yeah, I said it! Men fear women. Why else would we have been subjected to being burned at the stake or drowned in Salem, MA? Why else would the Catholic church have taken away our right to preach the gospels we're supposed to respect, love, and model just like them? Why else would a Muslim woman have to cover herself with the veil lest she "be a temptation" and distract man from his ultimate objective - constant, dedicated worship of God? Why else would we still be, since the dawn of humanity, the universal victims of the most heinous and degrading treatment any human being should ever endure - rape and abuse?
Not male bashing. No femi-nazi hate here. Just rational, intellectual discussion of a consideration of a concept to explain why women are feared and thus sexualized and objectified - STILL - in this day and age.
So, in the NIV Bible, the translation I found (Gen. 3:1-6) of this little story goes like this:
Now, the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'" (v3)
Well, the serpent goes on to tell her that she won't die. God just said that, he says. The real truth is that her knowledge would increase regarding life and good and evil, and God didn't want her/them knowin' all that God knew. So the woman ate the apple, and, well, you know the rest.
So, what did the serpent do? Some say it deceived Eve but she knew what was going on so how could there have been deception? The serpent told her the truth - that she would have knowledge the equivalent of God's. That equaled POWER in her mind; power she felt she could handle; power she wanted. Therefore, she went for it.
This is why women are evil and thus feared - because of the power within us and the power we want as human beings. Men know how corrupt and deadly they can be with power. Hell, we've been experiencing it since the dawn of time! Imagine that corruption and deadly force in the hands of a woman then! Scary, i'nt it?! That is why Lady Macbeth and the Weird Sisters (the witches) were such impacting forces in the play. That is why women have not totally gained the power.
Yeah, we've made advances, burned bras, and gained a whole lotta ground. But we still got a long way to go. Until we are no longer sexualized, until we no longer have to manipulate him or play on his weaknesses to get what we need or what, until we no longer have to fear for our advancement, security, and position in whatever world we occupy, until we don't have to hide our beauty and strength behind veils of any kind, we will not truly nor completely have the power. And we shall continue to be feared rather than respected. Personally, I prefer the respect. But I'll take the fear until men wise up.