Woman fights the Patriarchy by becoming a corporate wage slave, then realizes 70 work weeks aren't all they're cracked up to be. Subsequently blames the Patriarchy.

LondonDude123 · 2021-09-26T16:37:46+00:00

Hold the fuck on here.

She's a lawyer right? Like she went to law school, graduated, and got a job with the supreme court. So that makes her a lawyer. As such, she should know the rights and wrongs of being a lawyer, and the legal system in general.

She goes on to say this:

We were taught Blackstone’s Ratio, “it is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”. Although I do not refute the premise itself, we live in a world where a survivor of sexual assault who bravely takes the witness stand will be subject to an even more traumatic line of questioning. To instil reasonable doubt, a cloud is cast over her character, her integrity… her purity.

I was heartbroken, but I was ready to wage war.

So the complaint, from an actual lawyer, is "People are innocent until proven guilty, and I dont like that because it means we have to doubt an accuser at first."

This is an ACTUAL LAWYER saying this!

McFeely_Smackup · 2021-09-26T20:55:51+00:00

Undergraduate is 4 years, Law school is an additional 3. And she's 26, apparently been out of school for just over 1 year...and is already burned out on "fighting the patriarchy from the inside"

It seems like she's expecting success, power, and wealth to come to her without doing the work. Something tells me she's going to be a stay-at-home wife as soon as she can arrange it, at which point she'll talk about her days conquering the patriarchy.

Basketballjuice · 2021-09-26T17:46:54+00:00

I mean hey, I'd love to be a house husband. More power to women if they want to take on the more difficult role of the provider.

SkullAngel001 · 2021-09-26T20:01:30+00:00

I wanted to be proud, but my future felt bleak, and I was ashamed. My job wasn’t, and isn’t, the problem.

It was that I had fallen into the trap of using other people’s perceptions of success to define my own. I was “making it” in a man’s world.

In other words, men and the Patriarchy literally had nothing to do with your depression. Your entire article is basically asking your fellow feminists to find something/anything that could be twisted to conform to your rhetoric that you're desperately trying to preserve.

TheEthnicityOfASpoon · 2021-09-26T21:40:42+00:00

TL:DR: Women tries to act like a man, and it gives her a headache.

IShouldNotTalk · 2021-09-26T16:04:46+00:00

The key take away, “My personal choices and priorities aren’t why I’m unhappy, it’s the Patriarchy!” Personal accountability, responsibility, and consequences are foreign to these people when their lifestyle isn’t everything they dreamed of, it must be someone else’s fault they are unsatisfied with life.

mgtowolf · 2021-09-26T18:48:04+00:00

"I wanna be CEO one day!"

"All you have to do is trade the best years of your life, chained to a desk 80 hours a week, all year round. And beat out all the other thousands of people doing the same exact thing"

"No, I just wanna be CEO, not all that other stuff!"

Nath43673 · 2021-09-26T23:00:48+00:00

From the article:

The machinations of patriarchy necessitate the exploitation of everything that isn’t male.

Hang on. Maybe a feminist can correct me, but I thought the current idea was that "the patriarchy hurts men too"? Aren't men being exploited by its machinations? Men represent the majority of wage slaves, and have for all of recent history.

Or is this just further evidence that "the patriarchy" is a poor concept (and poor terminology) for explaining the legacy of gender roles and expectations affecting both men and women.

booyah2 · 2021-09-26T16:46:17+00:00

Let's be honest, the real crime in this article was the mother naming her kid Edwina.

anthologyxxviii · 2021-09-26T20:10:29+00:00

Yeah you can definitely tell that she is avoiding some kind of inconvenient truth. I partially feel bad for people that think like this. It is not easy to have your perspective changed when your mind works like this, and if you can’t recognize reality then you’re bound to have a tough and miserable life.

braucifur · 2021-09-26T21:42:49+00:00

Hopefully by the time she discovers the error of her ways she is too old to reproduce. These people need to be bred out of the gene pool and cautionary tales for young girls that if they make the same choices that this woman did, that cats need homes too.

armaadi · 2021-09-26T16:07:47+00:00

She is coming face to face with the fact that change in society isn't a colorful, glorious revolution. It's a slow steady, one day at a time shuffle towards a goal.

If she wants more powerful women in society, she has to be that powerful woman. Feminism told her to fight and smash the patriarchy, but feminism didn't tell her it would take millions of women doing boring ass office work for decades to shift the wage gap 5% more in women's favor.

She was promised a battle and got a war or attrition...against men who have been waging this war for millenia. Men have been competing against men for forever, and now women are realizing that the struggle I'm the money making world isn't glorious.

It's boring and monotonous.

DanteLivra · 2021-09-26T16:28:18+00:00

feminism and corporate success are inextricably linked.

She clearly never read any original feminists text. 1st wave feminism was all about being anti-capitalism lmao.

KICKERMAN360 · 2021-09-27T01:05:00+00:00

The issues relating to overworking and the "70 hour" work week are entirely NOT a gender issue. Notwithstanding, unless she has some whack-ass contract, she should be entitled to some crazy over time or loading.

More like, "woman who gets broken up with realises SHE isn't all she is cracked up to be"!

tacticalslacker · 2021-09-27T04:37:38+00:00

Fucking sucks to get treated like a man with those 70 hour work weeks, amirite? 🤡🤦🏼‍♂️

karmaman12345 · 2021-09-26T20:15:50+00:00

Once again, rich men =/= all men, of course rich CEO types are going to tell you that there’s nothing more fulfilling than an 80/hr work week, because it benefits them to squeeze as much work as possible from each employee. That’s not an issue with the patriarchy, that’s an issue with the rich CEO types that convinced so many people that it was true. It’s no more a man’s idea of success than it is her’s.

ManofGod1000 · 2021-09-26T22:29:56+00:00

I would not want to be around when she hits the wall, face first.

djc_tech · 2021-09-27T11:24:02+00:00

So she fought hard to be able to work and have a career like a man. So now she is working hard and is basically doing all the things men do every day and she doesn’t like it? Did she just expect things handed to her?

IronJohnMRA · 2021-09-26T19:04:43+00:00

Feminism promised women independence, they never told them it was a one way trip.

usku · 2021-09-26T19:53:18+00:00

So because most men have to do this, and most of us don’t mind the money, and don’t find the work hard, it’s the patriarchy’s fault cause women struggle doing it?

Wtf.

donhuff23 · 2021-09-27T11:55:45+00:00

She is not a good lawyer. We live in an adversarial system. This means several things: 1. The accuser is the state and only the state has that authority. 2. The defense is there to make sure the police have met their burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. 3. We live in an imperfect system filled with testosterone and lipstick.
4. Eyewitness testimony is only 30% accurate at best. The human mind functions by focusing on those things necessary for survival first, mating second, leisure third. In order to work, it must filter out a lot of inconsequential stuff. This could be an important clue that wasn’t important to the witness at that point in time. 5. The development of modern scientific instrumentation and techniques make jailing the innocent less likely. But it comes at a cost of privacy. AND in the case of sexual assault, the evidence needed to successfully and correctly prosecute a case requires further intimate invasion by medical personnel. I am a man, but I can imagine the last thing I really want is further personal violation. 6. I agree he victim of a sexual assault has a rough road ahead. We are making inroads to almost absolutely identifying the rapist far far beyond any unreasonable doubt. - we know precisely who it is. - But only if we obtained some of his/her DNA somehow. So we increase the rape conviction rate at the expense pf casting an even wider net to force innocent individuals to give up some of their DNA.

StudentOfTheTruth0 · 2021-09-27T18:05:34+00:00

The epitome of female entitlement and arrogance, with a big dose of misandry. Uncritically accepts all unfounded and baseless feminist men-shaming falsehoods.

Also a perfect example of why feminism makes women unhappier and unhappier. Feminism is as much a curse on women as it is on men.

otterlyclueless · 2021-09-28T20:41:16+00:00

I just read an article claimong women do twice as much work as men do as eladers because they do emotional labor for their employees.

Ot never says which employees though so I am betting it is the women under them and not the men. The men are just expected to manage all that themselves.

It's absolutely ridiculous to claim women are better leaders for doing more emotional labor and not the rest of leadership requirements.

VisionaryPioneer · 2021-09-26T16:53:17+00:00

If she and other females wanted to become empowered, they would all fight against this neofeudalistic wage slavery by fighting kleptocratic elites who own many things internationally. But so far, this world has become an Orwellian and a dark place, especially during the pandemic from what I experienced. It's not only about patriarchy even though patriarchal governments exist in some countries. It's about people allowing greed, corruption, and chaos to ensue without much critical thinking and taking accountability for their actions efficiently. People who don't let others have fair access to education, healthcare, intellectual freedom, free speech, online privacy rights, job opportunities, money, and power are considered tyrants. This woman "fighting the patriarchy" is just distracting herself from objective reality. I'm not surprised if she lives in America. America was founded on slavery for elites, warmongering genocide (which fuels toxic masculinity at the expense of men's well-being significantly because of P.T.S.D. and physical disabilities caused by war), misogynistic religion that makes trillions of dollars (while these Christian "feminists" are having contrarian belief systems that make them be a joke), anti-intellectualism (which makes entertainment and sports be more important than critical thinking in America), etc. Which is why chaos and insanity ensue in America inevitably. Which is why females and males will continue to be treated horribly in America if they are not rich and/or famous. This woman is just waking up to harsh reality. And I wouldn't be surprised if she got a poor quality education in America before graduating from high school. Because she doesn't seem fully prepared for the real world after graduating. If she does live in America, then her attitude is proving American civilization has collapsed many decades ago.

enp1sw · 2021-09-26T15:41:32+00:00

What, specifically, does this have to with men's rights?

EmptinessWithin · 2021-09-27T08:59:09+00:00

Patriarchy has been given the finger and been denied - women most affected!

sleepyJoeBidet · 2021-09-30T21:56:09+00:00

Wow surprise and remorse when a test of her faith did nothing but highlight her absurd paranoia, and the depth of her delusion.

Remind me of people who double down on religion and day any degree of questioning must be proof of the devil.

mercinarary · 2021-09-26T16:24:31+00:00

Did you actually read the article?

Title	Woman fights the Patriarchy by becoming a corporate wage slave, then realizes 70 work weeks aren't all they're cracked up to be. Subsequently blames the Patriarchy.
Author	booyah2
Upvotes	517
Comments	122
Date	September 26, 2021 2:53 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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