Tuesday 1 February 2011

The iron lung of patriarchy

If the child really were having extreme levels of difficulty breathing, an iron lung would be a life-saver. If not, it would be an immeasurably damaging imposition on the organic processes of life.

Experience has taught me that Christianity and patriarchal ideologies in general (no matter what religious forms they take) act to disrupt the normative, organic processes of human nature by applying what is, in effect, an iron lung to all forms of life -- whether healthy or unhealthy. The cause of this behaviour is an extreme degree of pessimism about "human nature" and what it would become if left to its own devices.

This pessimism refuses to leave even healthy human life alone -- indeed because it does not recognise even the possibility of there being any healthy, organic life that emerges of its own accord, unfacilitated by the heavy hand of Western patriarchy, it does this.

The refusal to see women as being on an equal level to men, along with the pathologising of female sexuality (which is consistent with this selfsame patriarchal logic) -- all are an expression of dire, right-wing pessimism in relation to what ought to be natural erotic processes. They apply an iron lung to human nature, where no need for one has been established. In doing so, they actually destroy the natural relationship between the sexes.

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