Monday 29 October 2012

The metaphysics of right-wing populism

What Offends You, the War on Women or That It’s Being Discussed? | Clarissa's Blog



Nothing that is said by the current English-speaking right wing parties is any different from what the metaphysics of patriarchy has already installed in our consciousness for eons.

The above statement draws on the presupposition that women’s issues are necessarily trivial, indeed in some sense not REAL at all.

So, if you want to complain you were raped, that is trivial.
If you want to equal pay, you are asking for something that the fabric of reality can’t accommodate.
If you disagree with misogyny, it is because you can’t get your pretty little head around the way REALITY NECESSARILY WORKS
If you talk about women’s health, you are trying to bring into the public sphere a measure of unreality.

Consequently, there is no war on women and never has been one. There have only been rational people — namely men — avoiding trivial and unreal things.

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