Category: Catch-22 (Snatch-22)

The most patriarchal cultures turn their women into representatives of their honour – labelling them defective creatures, which must be hidden away for their own protection.

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Men in these cultures consider any woman out-of-doors, unaccompanied by her male owner, to be a slut who deserves to be groped, abused, raped and/or killed.

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However, every woman in these cultures must at some time walk unaccompanied, if for no other reason than to collect firewood or water, or to bring comfort to the sick and dying, or to aid in childbirth, or to flee abuse.

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The result:
Every woman in these cultures has a target on her back.

Purity, innocence and sanctity, all lost when a woman “knows” a man.

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Patriarchy turns a natural activity into contagion, infection, contamination, pollution.

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And all of it sticks to the female.

The Earth has been dying since patriarchal man became its master.

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The Patriarchy is a male dominated society which objectifies the “other” – women, BIPOC, minorities, animals, plants, resources, the environment, our Mother, the Earth.

An object is a possession – a toy you are free to use, abuse, or destroy as you please. And if the toy gets broken, why you just get a new one!

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The Patriarchy is a “slave” society which produces grown men who are narcissistic egomaniacs, raised as irresponsible, spoiled 3-year-olds: A child who drops his used underwear on the floor, leaves his dirty dishes for others to wash, walks over the clean floor with his muddy shoes.

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There has ALWAYS been someone there to clean-up the patriarchal man’s messes for him, to assure him it’s not his fault, to get him a new toy – everything has always been someone else’s problem.

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So, patriarchal man is comfortable making a mess of the environment – someone else’s problem. And if the Earth is destroyed, he believes, just as in the past, and as with all his other toys, someone will get him a new planet to play with.

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Allowing patriarchal man dominion over the Earth is like giving a wife abuser dominion over a battered woman’s shelter.

An object cannot respond to being commented on, handled, fondled, abused, destroyed.

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Objects don’t talk back, they don’t compete, and they don’t threaten.

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Patriarchal males seem to prefer to deal with objects rather than real human beings.

Women have been less than human for centuries. They still are in most cultures of the world.

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Makes you wonder about what patriarchy has done to men …

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It makes them prefer sex with something they don’t consider quite human.

David Ramsay, a Canadian judge, used his position to target vulnerable Indigenous girls as young as 12 who had appeared before him. He would pick them up in his car to abuse them sexually and physically.

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He would drive out of town and dump them naked in the bush, leaving them to walk home.

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At sentencing, he complained his career had been ruined by the petty complaints of prostitutes.

Like most convicted Johns, he had a bad case of whore moans.