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redqueen

(115,177 posts)
3. Patriarchy.
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 07:32 PM
Feb 2014

It's why so very many people try to blame women for everything they can. (e.g. A man beat a woman? Well what did she do to make him do that? or A man beat his children? Why didn't his wife stop that from happening? When often these women are terrorized, brutalized, and broken - often by their often fathers before they end up with similar men. It's at the root of every attempt to blame the victimized for the actions of the victimizers.)

Patriarchy established our hierarchical system. It is at the root of so much that ails the world.

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Oh my. SummerSnow Feb 2014 #1
Patriarchy. redqueen Feb 2014 #3
It's only been a bit over a hundred years since it was WhiteTara Feb 2014 #7
Wow Mz Pip Feb 2014 #2
I want to know why that the State has not closed that facility and DURHAM D Feb 2014 #4
That ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #6
My Mother spent the last two years of her life in a Memory Unit. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #11
We used to allow couples to bring in their own bed ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #13
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... BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2014 #5
I do not understand this sentence: Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #8
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I am not excusing. I just thought the sentence was phrased very badly. Horrible sentence. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #20
Oh I know you weren't excusing ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #23
yes. and LoL on the SoL. We have that sometimes too. Very old school attittude but, then we are Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #24
One-to-one assignment. My husband has one. WinkyDink Feb 2014 #15
could be. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #21
WTF! sheshe2 Feb 2014 #9
I can't believe this shenmue Feb 2014 #10
Sentenced to 53 months. TDale313 Feb 2014 #14
Yeah, but what was she wearing? tclambert Feb 2014 #16
To steal a line from Airplane! iandhr Feb 2014 #17
Another example of how treatment of women is getting worse. marble falls Feb 2014 #18
OMG! AnnieBW Feb 2014 #19
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