Wednesday, August 10, 2011

How can anyone defend patriarchy, when it so clearly resembles the mindset of terrorism?

Patriarchy has been institutionalized and imbedded in western law since the beginning of western civilization. Patriarchy is the belief in male superiority over half of the human species; it is about power and domination over women (and children) and the spread of this infectious belief exists in both the eastern and the western world centers/powers. This idea of male superiority is carried out in Capitalism, Confucianism, Marxism, Fascism, Monarchies, Theocracies, and not only political, philosophical and economic systems, but also in all of the world religions. The terrorist is not a modern character but one that has been around since the beginning of patriarchy and exists to keep the myth of masculinity and maleness alive. Religion, philosophy and aesthetics all endeavors that have actively aimed at the exclusion of women; all perpetuate and condone this notion of male superiority.

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