- When you ignore the fact that work in the past demanded physical strength (in the year 1400 71% of the people in france for example worked in agriculture, 60% in Italy, 57% in England.), infant mortality was very high and other natural factors created gender roles and you blame it on "male domination" as if working in agriculture or coal mine is a privilege !
- When you ignore all the studies that prove the symmetry in domestic violence and insist that only men are abusers and only women are victims and you pass a bill titled "Violence Against Women Act"
- When you use studies on sexual abuse that consider male rape by women as non-rape to prove that sexual is something only men do and all men are to blame like the feminist author Susan Brownmiller said in her book Against Our Will: "Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. "
- When all gender studies focus exclusively on women's rights but never men's rights, when you focus exclusively on the oppression of women ignore the present and historical oppression of men like being forced to go to war, being second class victim in anti traficking treaty, being mocked for being victim of domestic violence or rape by women, being the majority of the homeless...
When you explain the past and the present by "men as class" oppress "women as a class" of course the result will be hashtag "men are arash". you see that Iranian men who oppose the regime and forced headscarf ? he is part of the "oppresser class". and you see that Iranian women who insult other women who don't wear head scarf calling them "sluts" ? she is part of the "oppressed class" ! according to the patriarchy theory men are oppressors. regardless of what they do or don't do.
Hashtag "men are trash" is a direct result of feminism. the patriarchy theory present men exactly how the nazis presented jews : parasites who exploit and dominate others.
The patriarchy theory is not just false, but hateful.
" So one of my core themes in The Myth of Male Power—that history’s controlling force was not patriarchy, but survival—is still ignored. Instead, the leading universities’ women’s studies and “gender studies” courses still emanate from the Marxist and Civil Rights model of oppressor vs. oppressed. We’ll see in this book exactly why the dichotomy of oppressor/oppressed is both inaccurate and, more important, undermines love and women’s empowerment. In virtually every leading university this leads to a demonizing of men and masculinity that distorts the very essence of traditional masculinity—being socialized to be a hero by being willing to sacrifice oneself in war or in work. The possibility that being socialized to be disposable is not genuine power is, to this day, either considered radical, heretical, or, most frequently, not considered. "
― Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power. (read the book here)
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Its hard to negate that patriarchy existed, and was a biased social system of hierarchy between males to control all the resources and also control woman's reproductive status.
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Patriarchy is a social system where resources and positions of power are dominated by men. You will find many societies like that throughout history and even today.
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Patriarchy doesn't exist anymore in the West in the 21st century. It still exists in third world countries.
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Because male on male competition, men of lower status (peasants) were forced to do bidding for males of the higher status (king) ex,war Patriarchy hurts both genders because of its hierarchal nature.
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Conscription was something ordered by the King. Conscription is a form of oppression.. by other men. Both men and women were forced to work as peasants for the king. When there was war, peasants were conscripted by the king.
In every class, men's social status was superior to women's social status. In many societies, women's properties were owned by her husband, she cannot go outside without her husband's permission. A woman's social status was defined by the men in her life (father or husband). There are obviously many more things that benefited men in a patriarchy.
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Look at the patriarchies in the third world. That's what the Western civilization was like centuries ago.
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In the sciences, theory isn't the same as hypothesis. A theory means an "explanation" of something.
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Historically men owned all the resources, property and political say in society. They also governed their wives or what is known as coveture. So yeah, patriarchy did exist, but it doesn't anymore in the West.
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Ancient Athens and Rome were both patriarchal. When compared with the same class, men had superior status than women.
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