Patriarchy, like all oppressive systems, is insidious.It gets inside us.We end up doing the work of oppression to ourselves and others without the oppressor being directly involved. We happily take the food from our own plate. We easily call ourselves names.We don’t need to be shamed into feeling small, we work hard to be smaller.We pass it on to the next generation or encourage our friends or family. We enact the goal of a system bent on making sure those within it feel, not only, never good enough, but wrong, watched, measured, stressed, unsafe, disempowered, disembodied.It seems small to pinch your thigh and say it’s bad. But it’s big when that is part of a system which says women’s bodies are so valueless they are not worth autonomous human rights.
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7 decades of self denial
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Patriarchy, like all oppressive systems, is insidious.It gets inside us.We end up doing the work of oppression to ourselves and others without the oppressor being directly involved. We happily take the food from our own plate. We easily call ourselves names.We don’t need to be shamed into feeling small, we work hard to be smaller.We pass it on to the next generation or encourage our friends or family. We enact the goal of a system bent on making sure those within it feel, not only, never good enough, but wrong, watched, measured, stressed, unsafe, disempowered, disembodied.It seems small to pinch your thigh and say it’s bad. But it’s big when that is part of a system which says women’s bodies are so valueless they are not worth autonomous human rights.