My Feminist Journey, Part IV | Clarissa's Blog
The situation where the males invade one's private space in order to make you shrink into a smaller mindset ---I've had that experience a lot, earlier in my life. To move in and take up space that you require, but which they don't require, puts you on the defensive. That uses up psychical energy, which means you don't have as much to expend in developing a public life, either. First consolidate your space in the private realm and then you can extend into the public. My family of origin were very keen to stop me from developing in this way. It was psychological warfare.
And by the way, the Rhodesian military used to use the same strategy of ongoing harassment to keep the blacks from making civil protests. They would switch off their water and electricity and harass them with helicopters as a warning not do try protesting again. So my father had actually had substantial formal training in the art of keeping someone down.
The situation where the males invade one's private space in order to make you shrink into a smaller mindset ---I've had that experience a lot, earlier in my life. To move in and take up space that you require, but which they don't require, puts you on the defensive. That uses up psychical energy, which means you don't have as much to expend in developing a public life, either. First consolidate your space in the private realm and then you can extend into the public. My family of origin were very keen to stop me from developing in this way. It was psychological warfare.
And by the way, the Rhodesian military used to use the same strategy of ongoing harassment to keep the blacks from making civil protests. They would switch off their water and electricity and harass them with helicopters as a warning not do try protesting again. So my father had actually had substantial formal training in the art of keeping someone down.
