Wednesday 7 October 2009

Patriarchy and its mores

The logical double-bind that it seeks to impose on women can also be imposed on individual patriarchs.

For each of them, at one time or another, rail against perceived oppressors. The answer they require to such complaints is (of course):

But, you must be pathological in mind and soul if you have a complaint against those dearly beloved normal people.

Also, they are not even oppressors! For, I, personally, have never received a harsh word from any of them! You surely must be loony-bins if they are not treating you right.


For extra measure, one might adopt a self-righteous religious tone in condemning any sort of griping: "But, Jesus told us to love everybody."

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