Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their father...s by keeping secrets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gende...r politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is r...aised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establish...ment of black male patriarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm d...imensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henh...ouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, an...d double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-pro...voking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swampgrass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do the ...megapatterns of nationalism or racism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »