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Please note that “The Patriarchy” does not mean “every man and only men engage in a system which promotes stiff and stereotypical gender roles, keeping the private and public spheres seperate.“
Women can and do involve themselves in the patriarchy. Men do not conform wholly to patriarchal tools.
One of the most damaging tools in this structure is the obsession with appearance and its unequal application to one gender. That is what this camera, the fashion and entertainment industry, and the diet and beauty industry prey upon.
Oh, and to the dancer, it isn’t the men’s preference for a certain weight that causes us to implicate them in the patriarchal structure, it’s the fact that they feel so entitled to women’s sexuality that they will pay for it.
Yet, when they are in line at the magazine rack at the grocery store, what do they actually reach for? Well you tell me: what is the best selling beauty magazine worldwide? Come on... You can say it... Come on....
and guess who is to blame?
MEN.
I would agree with this in the sense that we men need to STOP bedding these complaining, hypocritical women so they do not breed daughters who can then point fingers at men.
if the daughters of complainers are NEVER BORN, there is noone left to complain about men (when indeed the women should be pointing fingers at themselves)
SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PLAN TO ME: Abandon feminists
One of the most damaging tools in this structure is the obsession with appearance and its unequal application to one gender. That is what this camera, the fashion and entertainment industry, and the diet and beauty industry prey upon.
Oh, and to the dancer, it isn’t the men’s preference for a certain weight that causes us to implicate them in the patriarchal structure, it’s the fact that they feel so entitled to women’s sexuality that they will pay for it.
how mentally ill do you have to be to post such tripe?
1. Men are judged on appearance by women all the time.
2. Preying upon can only be done to stupid people.
3. Women NEVER feel entitled to men's attention, love, sex?
4. How does giving someone monetary compensation for something in return constitute anything but a FAIR EXCHANGE? Or are women somehow superior to us measly inferior men? do we just not measure up to your divinity, your highness?
Women do not have to pay for sex from men, so men are at a DISADVANTAGE in relation to women in having to often pay for it. Women also often USE SEX as a tool to control men. Yet you posit that it is the women who are at a disadvantage in relation to men. YOU ARE EVIL like your feminist friends.