Tara van Dijik is a run away train and this is brilliant! Grab a cuppa, because it is long, but it also ferociously intelligent, challenging, commanding, and thoughtful at a time when thinking often stirs outrage.
Imagine writing this insightful piece so that most of our mothers, or sisters who could not afford college, could understand a word of it? Imagine it in the mainstream?
That said, aside from its abstruse language and reliance on theorists who themselves just made things up, as nearly all do, this is fascinating.
One thing I assure you> every time a woman uses the word Patriarchy now, particularly as a catch all for 'my world as a woman', let alone if she bothers to, or can indeed, articulate what is meant by her use of it, every time its used or overused or badly used, another man, another woman center or right of center, thinks, yes, I do hate liberals, and radicals, and feminists. - "Yes, I do like this orange buffoon and his worldview."
Caution is the way forward. Teaching young boys and men the lived experience of women - that is the way to change 'structures' through human minds.
PATRIARCHY has little to no use as a notion. Its use in the West is certainly incredibly ahistorical, and like SJW language and its laughable terms, does more harm than good.
Tara van Dijik is a run away train and this is brilliant! Grab a cuppa, because it is long, but it also ferociously intelligent, challenging, commanding, and thoughtful at a time when thinking often stirs outrage.
Brava!
Imagine writing this insightful piece so that most of our mothers, or sisters who could not afford college, could understand a word of it? Imagine it in the mainstream?
That said, aside from its abstruse language and reliance on theorists who themselves just made things up, as nearly all do, this is fascinating.
One thing I assure you> every time a woman uses the word Patriarchy now, particularly as a catch all for 'my world as a woman', let alone if she bothers to, or can indeed, articulate what is meant by her use of it, every time its used or overused or badly used, another man, another woman center or right of center, thinks, yes, I do hate liberals, and radicals, and feminists. - "Yes, I do like this orange buffoon and his worldview."
Caution is the way forward. Teaching young boys and men the lived experience of women - that is the way to change 'structures' through human minds.
PATRIARCHY has little to no use as a notion. Its use in the West is certainly incredibly ahistorical, and like SJW language and its laughable terms, does more harm than good.