Understanding Patriarchy

CosmicKeys · 2013-02-21T08:19:38+00:00

There's a PDF here: http://imaginenoborders.org/pdf/zines/UnderstandingPatriarchy.pdf

This was posted in /r/feminisms, my response was:

We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system. Dismantling and changing patriarchal culture is work that men and women must do together.

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By placing the blame for the perpetuation of sexism solely on men, these women could maintain their own allegiance to patriarchy, their own lust for power. They masked their longing to be dominators by taking on the mantle of victimhood.

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Separatist ideology encourages women to ignore the negative impact of sexism on male personhood. It stresses polarization between the sexes

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Boys brutalized and victimized by patriarchy more often than not become patriarchal, embodying the abusive patriarchal masculinity that they once clearly recognized as evil.

EDIT: And if it wasn't clear, I was quoting the article to show how feminists do not live up to their own word with their actions.

rottingchrist · 2013-02-21T08:53:13+00:00

[Feminist definition of patriarchy] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/patriarchy)

Patriarchy (rule by fathers) is a social system in which the male is the primary authority figure central to social organization and the central roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property, and where fathers hold authority over women and children. It implies the institutions of male rule and privilege, and entails female subordination.

All men have privilege which they use to deny women things that would be available to them in an equal society. Therefore, every man by virtue of his privilege is an oppressor of women.

It really isn't surprising why most men would reject a theory that villifies them so.

hardwarequestions · 2013-02-21T08:29:33+00:00

Calling society patriarchy is like looking at a fruit bowl filled with bananas and peaches and calling it a banana bowl.

Also, I thought bell hooks was disliked by feminists...no?

2013-02-21T12:12:52+00:00

Many men in our nation would not be able to spell the word or pronounce it correctly.

This sure does rub me the wrong way. I imagine the percentage of men and women in our nation who can't spell or pronounce patriarchy is probably about the same. But it lets you know where she's headed, anyway.

Edited for a bad apostrophe

squirtlekin · 2013-02-21T08:45:29+00:00

What she's talking about sounds more like the enforcement of gender roles than her definition of Patriarchy to me.

drinkthebleach · 2013-02-21T20:12:29+00:00

Lol people still actually believe in patriarchy after they turn 17?

Title	Understanding Patriarchy
Author	DJ_Ango
Upvotes	0
Comments	33
Date	February 21, 2013 7:59 AM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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