... wrote on Jun 11
th, 2015 at 4:15pm:
Back on topic:
IMO Womens lack of agency, responsibility and self awareness is their biggest issue. But due to this deficiency, they are incapable of recognising it. This leads to blaming everything on fictional constructs like "THE PATRIARCHY"tm.
Lack of agency. Why do you think that is Honky? Could it perhaps be due to diminished levels of reflexivity resultant from the existence of a Patriarchy? I think so. Thank you for seeing that at last.
Responsibility? Really? Women wrote the book on responsibilty. We are, according to original sin, responsible for men's very thoughts. We have been persecuted through the ages as a result. In the modern era, we are still responsible for what we wear, how we act, what time we stay out until, where we go, and who we interact with. Men, it would seem, bear none of this responsibility yet are mere subjects to their urges.
Women also bear the chief responsibility for child rearing. A non-maternal mother is considered an anathema ... an non-paternal father is considered trapped for 18 years. Would you not say that child rearing is indeed the greatest responsibility of them all?
Self awareness? From puberty every girl is acutely self aware. She needs to be. She goes from being a child to the object of sexual objectification seemingly overnight. I remember being 12 and having a group of business men follow me around the city,talking in lurid detail about what they wanted to do to me. I was vastly self aware.
One could comfortably argue that eating disorders are a corruption of self awareness. Body dysmorphia. General obsession with appearance.
Women are acutely self aware because we are largely quantified by how we superficially appear. It causes us to be profoundly introspective. From, as i said, a very young age. There are not a great diversity of women in the media to comfort ourselves with. Not a great range of ages. Not a wide range of ages. Not a particularly braod set of opinions either, for that matter.
All of this is attributable to the patriarchy you deride as fictitional. Silly you. But then again, you're not the most perceptive soul.