Nice of Deep Green Resistance to illustrate what Patriarchy is for women.
“Female socialization in patriarchy is a process of psychologically constraining and breaking girls—otherwise known as “grooming”—to create a class of compliant victims. Femininity is a set of behaviors that are, in essence, ritualized submission.
We see nothing in the creation of gender to celebrate or embrace. Patriarchy is a corrupt and brutal arrangement of power, and we want to see it dismantled so that the category of gender no longer exists.
… Patriarchy facilitates the mining of female bodies for the benefit of men – for male sexual gratification, for cheap labor, and for reproduction. To take but one example, there are entire villages in India where all the women only have one kidney. Why? Because their husbands have sold the other one. Gender is not a feeling—it’s a human rights abuse against an entire class of people, “people called women.”
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June 21, 2014 at 7:50 am
roughseasinthemed
I’ve always like that post-feminist quotation.
These tragic highlights of abuse have to continue because while ever you have people who know not what they say, insisting there is no longer a problem and that women are not only equal but trying to claim superiority, we realise how far away we are from equality. Well we know that anyway, but others don’t. Or maybe women in India don’t count?
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June 21, 2014 at 8:00 am
The Arbourist
@RSITM
Many MRA’s would have us believe that we are living in an oppressive matriarchal society. The power of their sad bonerz blinds them to the reality of the situation.
I think I should make an FAQ or a post that explains the current state of things. Having to explain *again* about what feminism is and how we’re not done can be tiresome at times.
Yah, I’m thinking when women stop immolating themselves to escape arranged marriages and domestic abuse that might be a sign we are on the right track.
Contrast the above with the sad-phallus brigade whinge-festivals… There isn’t a valid comparison to be made.
So ya, I’m with you on this one.
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June 21, 2014 at 2:29 pm
syrbal-labrys
The whiney assed MRA guys all make me want to snap “Stop being wussies, for fuck’s sake!” No, not enlightened, but for pity’s sake; they could be standing in a vat of sugar and they’d be bitching about the smell.
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June 21, 2014 at 2:59 pm
The Arbourist
@Srybal
Well what else could they do? If they cannot blame women for their problems they have exactly zero to fall back on.
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