If one delves deeply into patriarchal psychology -- a dangerous, and thankless task in all -- one finds that it is the role of patriarchy, and of patriarchal types, wherever they can be found, to teach women and Negroes how to speak properly.
A woman, as we ought to know, is unspeakable. As Eve led Adam to conclude, her very body parts will lead to the downfall of Man. This sense of things is the psychological factor that leads right wingers to always attack the way she is speaking. The point is to reduce her to shame, to let her to reflect upon the unspeakability of her body parts -- and to reflect (above all) on how these led to the downfall of Adam.
Blacks, as we also know (via Ian Smith and the Colonial Experience) fail to speak properly. Whether it is the devil in them, or just the lack of English in their original culture, the failure is palpable in the eyes of those whose English makes them rational enough to govern others.
Nowadays Negroes see themselves as better than women -- those whose unruly body parts appear to make them impossible to govern. White feminists are ordered to keep out of black, Zimbabwean culture as "it is our right to rape our women if we want to!"
Yet both Negroes and women will at times still lapse into a mode where they are unable to speak. This is because they still need to learn all the techniques that are entirely necessary for them to speak properly.
These are: submissiveness, a deferential attitude and the ability to express extreme self doubt in the company of one's superiors (whether male or white).
A woman, as we ought to know, is unspeakable. As Eve led Adam to conclude, her very body parts will lead to the downfall of Man. This sense of things is the psychological factor that leads right wingers to always attack the way she is speaking. The point is to reduce her to shame, to let her to reflect upon the unspeakability of her body parts -- and to reflect (above all) on how these led to the downfall of Adam.
Blacks, as we also know (via Ian Smith and the Colonial Experience) fail to speak properly. Whether it is the devil in them, or just the lack of English in their original culture, the failure is palpable in the eyes of those whose English makes them rational enough to govern others.
Nowadays Negroes see themselves as better than women -- those whose unruly body parts appear to make them impossible to govern. White feminists are ordered to keep out of black, Zimbabwean culture as "it is our right to rape our women if we want to!"
Yet both Negroes and women will at times still lapse into a mode where they are unable to speak. This is because they still need to learn all the techniques that are entirely necessary for them to speak properly.
These are: submissiveness, a deferential attitude and the ability to express extreme self doubt in the company of one's superiors (whether male or white).
1 comment:
Oui, bien sur! Speaking, it is for the patriarch, and so on.
It's always good to have a reminder about why one is so often told, "It wasn't what you said, it was they way that you said it."
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