First, I define key terms central to this discussion including sex, gender and patriarchy.
In which her definitions are all biased towards the feminist-extremist view point...
On Sex and Gender:
The sex/gender distinction is conceptually important because it challenges the notion that hierarchical gender differences are determined by biological differences between women and men. If differences and hierarchical power relations between the sexes are primarily culturally constructed, they are changeable. If they are natural, on the other hand, it would be both impossible and morally wrong (unnatural) to change them.
Hierarchical power relations between the sexes are most definitely culturally constructed, and as the social engineers and feminist activists have already proven, they are most certainly changeable.
What this feminazi fails to realize is that the very reason why a culture such as that which evolved in what we now call "Western Civilization," was due in part to the hierarchical power relations that resulted in strong, Patriarchal-modeled nuclear families...and that changing that structure by changing the gender roles through subversion, propaganda and gender-biased laws have resulted in social chaos, the spread of broken homes and the proliferation of psychologically scarred children and the pathologies that are the hallmarks of a civilization in decline.
On Patriarchy:
Familial patriarchy refers to forms of family structure where men are the head of the household.
So far, so good...
Social patriarchy refers to a sex/gender system in which men dominate women and what is considered masculine is more highly valued than what is considered feminine.
Here's where she once again goes off into feminazi propaganda territory. In a Patriarchal society, that which is feminine is the most highly valued trait of all. It is the current feminist upheaval of traditional patriarchy that has degraded and demeaned all the defining characteristics of femininity; motherhood (the ultimate feminine trait) is cast as slavery, and being a housewife was compared to the lives of concentration camp inmates by the likes of such feminist luminaries as Betty Friedan.
Patriarchy is a system of social stratification, which means that it uses a wide array of social control policies and practices to ratify male power and to keep girls and women subordinate to men.
Again, this is simply a matter of perspective. It is not about ratifying male power, but rather placing legal and social constraints on female sexual behavior...because the lack of constraints leads to all sorts of social and familial chaos - which is exactly what we are seeing today.
So, one can see that by first starting out with the feminist defined terms with regards to gender, sex and patriarchy, she has already started out with feminist extremist bias that will no doubt reinforce her conclusion that Father's Rights groups are really NOT based on correcting injustices in divorce, custody and family laws, but only that Father's Rights groups simply are neanderthal Patriarch's who simply want to dominate and oppress women for no other reason than being motivated by misogyny.
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"Social patriarchy refers to a sex/gender system in which men dominate women and what is considered masculine is more highly valued than what is considered feminine."
Part of my edumakation as a Comp Sci geek included courses in logic. For this statement to be true, both halves have to resolve to true. So let's see what happens:
Social patriarchy refers to a sex/gender system in which men dominate women...
Okay, I think I can agree with that, although I'd bicker about the connotations of "domination".
...and what is considered masculine is more highly valued than what is considered feminine.
This statement is untrue on its face. Moreover, I don't know of a single FRA or anti-VAWA activist that devalues the feminine and elevates the masculine. More likely they are respected as two sides of the same human coin.
Ergo, her compound statement "A AND B" is untrue because, while A is true, B is not.
Besides, what are feminine and masculine traits these days in the USA? Can she even tell us?
So far, what I'm seeing is another feminist attempt to construct a strawman and proceed to knock it down.
"Patriarchy is a system of social stratification...
Oh, dear, out comes the Marxism...
...which means that it uses a wide array of social control policies and practices to ratify male power and to keep girls and women subordinate to men."
Um, no. While patriarchy places limits on female sexual behavior, men are not unconstrained as Mizz Feminist appears to allege. Male sexual behavior is limited too, in that they are held "responsible" for the support of their families.
Does she really think that holding a man responsible to his family is really a position of superiority over them? I don't call a person who has a sacrificial duty to someone else as being "superior" to them. Is a servant (a man) superior to his master (his wife and children)?
It infuriates me to know that this pustule Dragiewicz is in my province. The entire criminology department of the OIUT is infested with feminists: check out the credentials of the faculty and staff.
The fact that they are forced to acknowledge the existence of FR and MR activism indicates the growing acceptance and strength of said activism.
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