The self-defeating nature of patriarchal power

There is a definite need to employ the brain if one is lacking in power.Now, there is much stupidity in viewing women as amorphously defined rather than as individuals. This is the common patriarchal view, as Echidne points out. Patriarchy is very stupid, but it gets away with this stupidity because it uses brute force. Women are viewed as passive and emotional because of patriarchal possession of this stupidity/brute force, which does not require men to engage with more finesse with women, as one individual engages with another.To expect individual women to always conform to the passive/emotional stereotype is very stupid as it makes individual men very psychologically vulnerable to all the individual women in the world who are not this way.In martial arts, a physically weaker opponent can only win by doing what is unexpected. Individual women are already primed, by virtue of patriarchal stupidity, to do what is unexpected of them. (Most of them have an actual capacity for thought that is not accounted for in terms of patriarchal ideology.) When I teach self defence to women, I say that resisting or fighting back in any way at all will not be expected from you. The fact that this is unexpected is itself already an advantage. Surprise always awards a psychological advantage.

 Don't be who you are expected to be -- Be who you really are, in all of your unpredictability or variable human nature! That way, you'll beat 'em every single time.