Alam wrote:Claire wrote:Alam wrote:
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I don't want to make an argument or come off the wrong way but I don't think it's as easy as saying it's oppressive to women.... Like, it's not a problem exclusive to women but also that doesn't mean it's not a women's rights issue but also also I think something can be bad without there being a whole overarching thing causing it, you know? I can't piece together my opinions in words but I swear I have opinions lol
youre right. its primarily a womens issue and as a woman my discussions of prostitution are framed by my own biases but patriarchy is also something that effects the lgbt and its also racist. these issues are all intrinsically linked.
patriarchy (in the weast) isn't just like about opressing women its about enforcing a heteronormative hedgemony and white supremacy.
Excuse my perhaps ignorance, but I just don't see how that's true? Patriarchy is a system that gives men power over women, like, things can be bad without being other bad things. I just think it diminishes from women's abuse under patriarchy in developing, undemocratic countries to say that the women in the western world are all living under patriarchy. It's even unfair to the women 30 minutes from me, in Bnei Brak or Jenin. I think it's just too simplified to call it all patriarchy. Like, patriarchy is such a strong, loaded word, it's just hard for me to say that the women working in a tech company in silicon valley or as a teacher in a school in Stockholm is under the oppression of patriarchy when my dad's patient from Judea and Samaria killed herself trying to abort her fetus with a coat hanger because it was conceived out of wedlock and she would be killed by her family had they found out. It's just arggg it's complicated and I really don't understand it but this is just how it makes sense to me.
to me it seems that you are the one who wants to simplify patriarchy and say that only the absolute worst abuses of male power qualify. it's a system of power that seeps into our every day lives in many ways.