Patriarchal types always complain that nobody ever manages to explain to them in a logical or coherent way what patriarchy is and why it must be abolished. Some of those more contemporary ones may in fact read the words of feminists, but these words have no meaning to them, or if they do, the words seem "hysterical", "crazy", "emotional", "reactive", "oversensitive" and "exaggerated".
In every one of these descriptions, we have precisely the patriarchal perception of WOMAN. Patriarchal readers, some of whom may be women themselves, are unable to register any range of experience that is not already part of their conscious self-identity. They wish to identify themselves with the opposite characteristics to those listed above. Those opposite expressions to this are what patriarchal people view as "masculine".
When a patriarchal fellow is unable to understand the substance of the words he is reading, but instead finds himself tripped up by pejorative expressions that enter his mind, guess who is tripping him up? He is responsible for reading the characteristics he doesn't want to be identified with into the written word, to the extent that he cannot make coherent sense of what is written, but keeps asking for another explanation.
Such a fellow has no doubt already been told many things by feminists, but he cannot remember any of them, because he has been so intent on projecting the qualities he considers to be negative out of himself and into the text he has been reading. After that, he can feel disgusted with the text, but not disgusted with himself. So far as he is concerned, he is empty, free, an undefined essence floating above everything. Nothing moves him. He is a human being without emotion, without physical body.
Such is the nature of patriarchal projection. Patriarchal people have been rendered insane by their ideologies, but it is always a woman who are viewed as being "mad" whenever a patriarch cannot digest her words to him.
What is projected into women by the patriarch is actually and precisely the insanity engendered in the patriarch's mind as a result of his patriarchal ideological training.
In every one of these descriptions, we have precisely the patriarchal perception of WOMAN. Patriarchal readers, some of whom may be women themselves, are unable to register any range of experience that is not already part of their conscious self-identity. They wish to identify themselves with the opposite characteristics to those listed above. Those opposite expressions to this are what patriarchal people view as "masculine".
When a patriarchal fellow is unable to understand the substance of the words he is reading, but instead finds himself tripped up by pejorative expressions that enter his mind, guess who is tripping him up? He is responsible for reading the characteristics he doesn't want to be identified with into the written word, to the extent that he cannot make coherent sense of what is written, but keeps asking for another explanation.
Such a fellow has no doubt already been told many things by feminists, but he cannot remember any of them, because he has been so intent on projecting the qualities he considers to be negative out of himself and into the text he has been reading. After that, he can feel disgusted with the text, but not disgusted with himself. So far as he is concerned, he is empty, free, an undefined essence floating above everything. Nothing moves him. He is a human being without emotion, without physical body.
Such is the nature of patriarchal projection. Patriarchal people have been rendered insane by their ideologies, but it is always a woman who are viewed as being "mad" whenever a patriarch cannot digest her words to him.
What is projected into women by the patriarch is actually and precisely the insanity engendered in the patriarch's mind as a result of his patriarchal ideological training.
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