In the Patriarchy, dominant male preserves are jealously guarded from unwelcome interlopers …
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… from minorities …
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… and from women.
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Keep-out … You’re Not Wanted!
Category: Double Standards
Double standards are one of the key issues in feminism because the fact that men can live by a different set of rules than women creates inequity between the two genders.
In the context of Feminism, double standards mean that women are unfairly treated, humiliated, abused, and discriminated against just for being female.
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Never Quite Good Enough
A social system in which:
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Females, no matter how intelligent, attractive, or desirable, are brainwashed into seeing themselves as dumpy, dumb, and undesirable, in need of a new haircut, different make-up, a more effective diet, a better perfume, a new outfit, or even surgery …
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Males, no matter how unintelligent, unattractive, or undesirable, are empowered to see themselves as captivating, clever, and charming, in need of nothing.
A patriarchal society relentlessly fetishizes chastity, virginity and fidelity.
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xx Men mouth their loyalty to these virtues.
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Women are expected to live them.
Men occupy the top rungs of corporations, governments and educational institutions.
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Men still command more pay for their work, as well as more respect.
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Men still do not shoulder their fair share of the housework or childcare.
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Despite over 100 years of feminism, and society’s protestations of equality and modernity, patriarchy still dominates Western society. We still live in a missionary position culture, with men on top.
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And, too many of us are still uncomfortable with any other possibility. Too many of us feel a frisson of embarrassment, of guilt, about being a feminist.
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We are loath to admit it of ourselves, uncomfortable seeing it in our sisters, and reluctant to raise our children, particularly our sons, as anything other than slaves of archaic patriarchal beliefs and behaviours.
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Bad Dog – Errrr, Woman
If you could ask the dog in a loving household, it’d probably tell you how wonderful it is to have a master.
Ditto for traditional wives who have swallowed Patriarchal values.
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How often have we heard some woman who hit it lucky in the marriage lottery, telling us of her benevolent husband, how wonderful life in confinement is, how safe and protected she feels, that having to ask for male permission for even the simplest of activities is not a burden, that being without equal rights is no handicap for her, and how satisfying it is for her to be a chattel.
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Dogs do not cry for one of their species trapped in the brutal hands of an abuser.
Ditto for traditional wives brainwashed by Patriarchal values. They too rarely express sympathy for their sisters caught in abusive, violent marriages.
Indeed, they often blame their abused sister for the attacks upon her body, mind and soul.
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A willing slave is valuable to the Patriarchy because a willing slave always believes other slaves must be responsible for their own plight.
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Bad dog – errrr, woman – she had it coming to her.
Being the family dog can be attractive.
If you have a good Master, you are well fed, have a roof over your head, a comfortable bed, and a loving home.
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Being a traditional wife in a Patriarchal society can be attractive.
If you have a good Husband, you are well fed, have a roof over your head, a comfortable bed, and a loving home.
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But dog, or woman, it’s a bit rough if you get a bastard running the house.
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Dogs And Women – Mirror Images
Dogs & Women:
Under the Patriarchy, historically, we have shared so much.
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The Master owns them. He may punish them, strike them, abuse them, kill them, give them away, shackle them, or cage them at will.
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And who dares question his right to do so?
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Dogs And Women As Equals
Historically, under the Patriarchy, women and dogs have shared so much in common.
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They may be a much loved and spoiled member of the family, but who would ever dream of according them equal status?
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And, yes, the odd man may provide them with unusual liberty, or praise their intelligence.
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The Patriarchy holds such a man to be a fool.
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Wake-up, Ladies!
By the time too many women wake-up and are ready to admit the dirty truth about our still patriarchal society, it is too late.
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They’re old, ignorable, and disposable.
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And their daughters are already indoctrinated.
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Sleeping With The Enemy
Sleep with the enemy?
Alas, we women do so much more than that …
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We aid and abet them.
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We comfort, feed, and encourage them.
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We assist them to keep us in line and have acquiesced to the myth of the “mighty male” in the rape of our daughters, our land, and our Mother Earth.
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The world suffers for our Stockholm Syndrome.