Thursday 11 December 2008

the patriarchy: prey on us

..is that whatever you say and do about it is defined back into patriarchal terms.

Do you have trouble w/ your father?

Well that is obviously because of your Oedipus complex. It's not contempt, it's love at work, for what else could it be?

Is your employer not making the best use of you, causing you problems in such a way that disturbs your sleep and/or keeps you up at night?

That is because you love your boss, in fact so much that you want to sleep with bosses. That is why you are unable to sleep at night, you feisty thing, you.

What if you have insight enough to perceive that the whole system is upside down, because cowards and those who are emotionally weak are running the show?

That is because you are a bully and a shrew, running the show from underneath the system, causing everyone to throw up their arms in alarm, which, in turn leads things to slide into disarray.

But what if you defined yourself as weak? Then you deserve everything that happens to you. You need to get a thicker skin. No wonder your life is in such a disarray.

What if you define yourself as neither strong nor weak? Well then precisely what's your point? If you're not going to be opposite to anything, then you are just the same as everybody else. Having failed to prove your moral purity in a decisive sense, you can have nothing further to contribute to any discussion.

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Cultural barriers to objectivity