There is a really good way to gauge how much the patriarchy is ruling over you; how much it is filtering your perceptions.
Ask yourself this:
How much of what women speak is sheer nonsense?
If the proportions are high, then patriarchal value judgements are ruling over you a great deal. If the proportions are low, then the degree to which patriarchy rules you is only a little.
Of course, some people really do not have much interesting to say, but that is different from speaking actual nonsense.
The measure, then, of how much you are influenced by patriarchy is whether you can make head or tail of what women are saying to you at all. If you are one of those who resorts to platitudinalising with your notion that females are basically incomprehensible as such, you are, most certainly, dead in the water.
Ask yourself this:
How much of what women speak is sheer nonsense?
If the proportions are high, then patriarchal value judgements are ruling over you a great deal. If the proportions are low, then the degree to which patriarchy rules you is only a little.
Of course, some people really do not have much interesting to say, but that is different from speaking actual nonsense.
The measure, then, of how much you are influenced by patriarchy is whether you can make head or tail of what women are saying to you at all. If you are one of those who resorts to platitudinalising with your notion that females are basically incomprehensible as such, you are, most certainly, dead in the water.
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One of the ideas that most irritates me is that women (just) "need to talk" and can be satisfied if they are made to "feel listened to."
...when what we actually need to do is murder and decapitate!
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