My question is, why? When a women is MOST vulnerable and needs the MOST protection, her own partner is her highest risk.
But, now women are being erased in language and in law in order to abolish the last remaining legal protections available to us. And people wonder why we need feminism. As if feminism was created on a whim for the purpose of oppressing men.
Most women live in a constant state of fear and appeasement in order to cope with male rage. Not exactly the best frame of minds to be in when raising children. I know. I lived with a father who repeatedly raped and beat my mother. She did her best but at times we hated how she treated us, even as adults.
Patriarchy must be dismantled if we are to retain any shred of our humanity as a species. It starts by destroying the alpha males at the top who are exploiting the rest of us and concentrating all the wealth in their control. It's never enough.
Yes, those alpha males don't want to give up their power over women, so any threat to it is dealt with severely. I can't imagine your mother's hell, and the stress it placed on you and your siblings. I'm sure she didn't mean to allow it to bleed on to how she treated you, but no one can be expected to experience such mental pain and then treat those she is in charge of without that bleeding through.
I saw a graphic meme on X-Twitter shorly after I wrote this:
"Without men, women would have no one to protect them."
"From whom would they need protecting?"
Shortly after I read a tweet from a man that there are no clocks in his house, except for his watch and if his wife needed to know the time, she would need to ask him. She's in her own version of hell.
And so the pathocracy is maintained. I often wonder what kind of mother she would have been had she been loved and cared for the way she had hoped. She married at 17 and had 5 children by the time she was 26 years old (Catholic, so no birth control allowed, of course). The kicker? My mother repeatedly went to the church for help and advice. They repeatedly sent her back home because back then - 1950's - women's shelters did not exist. Now, women in women's shelters and prisons are FORCED to accommodate violent men.
Nice system if you're a rapist, pedophile or abuser. Not so much if you're female. It's driving women insane, one girl, one mother, one female human being at a time. Until men collectively decide they're tired of their sisters, mothers, daughters, etc having their lives destroyed. Lord knows women have been fighting to survive for millenia.
The leading cause of death for pregnant women is homicide - by far, the women's partner. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/homicide-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-u-s/
My question is, why? When a women is MOST vulnerable and needs the MOST protection, her own partner is her highest risk.
But, now women are being erased in language and in law in order to abolish the last remaining legal protections available to us. And people wonder why we need feminism. As if feminism was created on a whim for the purpose of oppressing men.
Most women live in a constant state of fear and appeasement in order to cope with male rage. Not exactly the best frame of minds to be in when raising children. I know. I lived with a father who repeatedly raped and beat my mother. She did her best but at times we hated how she treated us, even as adults.
Patriarchy must be dismantled if we are to retain any shred of our humanity as a species. It starts by destroying the alpha males at the top who are exploiting the rest of us and concentrating all the wealth in their control. It's never enough.
Yes, those alpha males don't want to give up their power over women, so any threat to it is dealt with severely. I can't imagine your mother's hell, and the stress it placed on you and your siblings. I'm sure she didn't mean to allow it to bleed on to how she treated you, but no one can be expected to experience such mental pain and then treat those she is in charge of without that bleeding through.
I saw a graphic meme on X-Twitter shorly after I wrote this:
"Without men, women would have no one to protect them."
"From whom would they need protecting?"
Shortly after I read a tweet from a man that there are no clocks in his house, except for his watch and if his wife needed to know the time, she would need to ask him. She's in her own version of hell.
And so the pathocracy is maintained. I often wonder what kind of mother she would have been had she been loved and cared for the way she had hoped. She married at 17 and had 5 children by the time she was 26 years old (Catholic, so no birth control allowed, of course). The kicker? My mother repeatedly went to the church for help and advice. They repeatedly sent her back home because back then - 1950's - women's shelters did not exist. Now, women in women's shelters and prisons are FORCED to accommodate violent men.
Nice system if you're a rapist, pedophile or abuser. Not so much if you're female. It's driving women insane, one girl, one mother, one female human being at a time. Until men collectively decide they're tired of their sisters, mothers, daughters, etc having their lives destroyed. Lord knows women have been fighting to survive for millenia.
Fighting to survive the dangers of the protectors, no less. Pathocracy is an excellent word for it.
thank you for your clear and true writing.
I am happy to hear you say that, I appreciate that you read it.