it's wild to read how women are really fucking sick of patriarchy while men are like "wait, this rules! You mean we get to have more power over women?? I'm in!"
while at the same time reading Caliban and the Witch and how witch burnings were used to force women into patriarchy-controlled poverty
https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998?syn-25a6b1a6=1
This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)
@susankayequinn this is very much on my to read pile. I suppose saying I’m looking forward to it is not quite right. But I am.
meanwhile, an entire cultural effort is being made to convince women to submit to men/patriarchy...
"traditional men want the services they believe only women should provide, such as emotional support and housework. But they also believe women are beneath them and, in fact, exist to serve them. So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/
Yep. Patriarchy goes back millennia. Expanding my bsky reply:
Caliban & the Witch is an important read. Suppressed herstory. Pairs well with Daniel Quinn's Ishmael that explains how dominant culture became #Patriarchy.
(Read Ishmael years ago; hopefully no problematic bits!)
Ishmael is fiction that speaks truth to power.
Jibes w archeologist Marija Gimbutas's work about the turn from Neolithic to Bronze age in Europe. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BjE2-H1R9Zs
@Talia I've owned a copy for almost a decade and just now getting around to reading it but HOLY CRAP is it super relevant to right now.
(A friend called it important suppressed herstory and YES)
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Yeah, seriously, why would those manosphere dudes respect their servants and slaves? Why would they cherish someone who almost literally is their property?
Loving slaves is a waste of emotion. It requires empathy, and as Elon Musk teaches those men, empathy is the enemy.
Of course, MAGA dudes don't love their wives.
As with everything, their propaganda is lies.
Strongly recommend women read The Gate To Women's Country, by Sherri S Tepper.
@susankayequinn ugh. Makes me want to get out my witch broom and snack some behinds.
Mine too. Saving for when I have enough equanimity stored to risk the cortisol explosion unlocking all that rage will trigger.
Reminds me-Rage Becomes Her
The Power of Women's Anger
By Soraya Chemaly
Title if someone wants to write it, or better yet we enact it- Twelve Million Angry Women
Patriarchy: "Let's imprison women for trying to get an abortion after a man rapes them!"
gee, I wonder why women are angry enough to levitate
https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-is-off-major-anti-abortion
@susankayequinn ALL of Federici's work is enraging. Read everything she's written!
@seijin oh heck, I will have to look into her work more deeply when I finish this!
"Why is it that women are so often told to hold their anger in? It’s almost as if the world is afraid of the collective power that women possess by getting angry and speaking about their discontent with their patriarchal status."