Who are you and where are your badges?

A letter in the Free Press.

Simon,

You’re right, those things are true. There’s a sore deal for men there. However, they’re there for reasons of practical necessity – someone’s got to do those jobs, and women are not excluded from them.

True, though de facto few women do these jobs. Automating and robotizing these jobs could help, though production of the tech and it’s…[Read more]

Does any of this remind you of Murica right now?

https://www.jpost.com/history/article-843017?dicbo=v2-p99qmgM

If you want patriarchy on steroids be a lefty. And never critique the obvious and outstanding champion of anti-humanist values. If you do you are a filthy racist!

One quarter of the population in a sexist, misogynistic, gender apartheid (to borrow a term) gender devaluation, gender mutilating, gender equality pretender upender. Feel good about…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
the rules of the “patriarchy” don’t redound to the benefit of most men. … Lots of reverse serendipity to go around on this flying mudball in space.

You’re right, those things are true.  There’s a sore deal for men there.  However, they’re there for reasons of practical necessity – someone’s got to do those jobs, and wom…[Read more]

Simon,

This finding is exactly consistent with patriarchy behaving as a moral domain whose overarching method is to dominate and control women and their sexuality. Women are subject to all kinds of rules that men are not. The more they try to assert self-determination, the more they are slapped down by patriarchy.

Not to take away from the…[Read more]