Sexuality and Patriarchy | Clarissa's Blog
Somebody on Youtube just wrote to me: Why use the term, feminism? A house divided against itself cannot stand.
All up, I think this view encapsulates the patriarchal paradigm really well, at least on a psychological level. Consider that if my emotions cannot be appropriated for use by my family, that is "a house divided against itself". But should I raise a protest that to appropriate my emotion as belonging to others is fundamentally unjust, then I am guilty of dividing the house. I am then deemed guilty of cutting myself off from patriarchal control, and do not deserve to stand. To claim for use what is my own is considered a hostile act -- one that is inherently divisive.
*I think in my case it was emotion, prior to sexuality, that was appropriated, thus it was very difficult for me to think using my own emotions.
Somebody on Youtube just wrote to me: Why use the term, feminism? A house divided against itself cannot stand.
All up, I think this view encapsulates the patriarchal paradigm really well, at least on a psychological level. Consider that if my emotions cannot be appropriated for use by my family, that is "a house divided against itself". But should I raise a protest that to appropriate my emotion as belonging to others is fundamentally unjust, then I am guilty of dividing the house. I am then deemed guilty of cutting myself off from patriarchal control, and do not deserve to stand. To claim for use what is my own is considered a hostile act -- one that is inherently divisive.
*I think in my case it was emotion, prior to sexuality, that was appropriated, thus it was very difficult for me to think using my own emotions.
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