Saturday 1 January 2011

Oops, you did it again.

Men's Rights Activist types look at how women seem to be under patriarchy and then ascribe their ways of behaving to "female nature". They have no conception that both men and women could behave extremely differently if only the patriarchal culture were changed. Of course women who have submitted to patriarchal values as the norm are going to feel resentful at various points. That's when custody battles start and that kind of thing. It's the way that women who think according to traditional patriarchal mores fight back against a feeling of oppression. This has very little to do with feminism, which proposes that a totally different set of relationships is possible.

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