Why patriarchy oppresses men and women alike

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Hansgrohe
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24 Jan 2015, 10:37 pm

The problem with "patriarchy", in this sense, is actually rather obvious: patriarchy sets certain morals and standards that somehow can't be crossed because uh oh, you have a certain set of biological features. Men must be blah blah blah, women must be blah blah blah. It creates a certain image of what people must be like and what they must not be like. In my opinion, not only is this overall oppressive to women and men, but it's especially oppressive to people on the spectrum, because typically people on the spectrum (overall) don't correspond to the stereotypical images of men and women.

Also, the whole "women only use emotion" is a pretty bad argument. In fact, rationality is partly structured on emotion. There's a freaking book written about this.



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24 Jan 2015, 10:56 pm

Hansgrohe wrote:
The problem with "patriarchy", in this sense, is actually rather obvious: patriarchy sets certain morals and standards that somehow can't be crossed because uh oh, you have a certain set of biological features. Men must be blah blah blah, women must be blah blah blah. It creates a certain image of what people must be like and what they must not be like. In my opinion, not only is this overall oppressive to women and men, but it's especially oppressive to people on the spectrum, because typically people on the spectrum (overall) don't correspond to the stereotypical images of men and women.

Also, the whole "women only use emotion" is a pretty bad argument. In fact, rationality is partly structured on emotion. There's a freaking book written about this.


TRUE, the most crippling aspect of patriarchy is the repression of emotions, particularly the emotions of males.

Emotions are what emote human living and is the basis of almost all rational decisions.

Human emotion is also responsible for the gluing of memories and cognitive executive function.

And emotion is actually behind human physical strength, auto-immune function, and almost every other healthy way of human integrated life.

To repress emotion IS misery and poor health just waiting to be the result, sooner or later in a life of NOT WELL BEING.

AND PHYSICAL intelligence per grace and balance is what does drive emotional intelligence, sensory integration, and the rest of the emotional equation per memory and cognitive executive functioning, AS SCIENCE NOW SHOWS.

To walk like a robot, instead of a Tiger on the Savannah in graceful POWERED WAY, is not to take FULLER ADVANTAGE OF HUMAN POTENTIAL.

MARTIAL artists in Eastern Philosophies per TAI CHI and KUNG FU ways, among others, have been telling this real life truth for literally thousands of years.

Science is finally catching up to the reality of healing human health, just by being a more fully integrated healthy human with mind and body balance, in both physical and emotional intelligence.

Will people learn about it, yes, if they truly are smart, and get access to this knowledge, it is to the betterment of mind-body balance if one practices the TRUE ARTS OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THAT IS FAR FAR away from the tenants of PATRIARCHY AS IT STILL stands in our western modern cultural ways of life, OVERALL. :)


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25 Jan 2015, 3:38 am

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Disagreeing with Seneca that emotion was a corrupter of reason, the 18th century English philosopher George Campbell argued, instead, that emotions were allies of reason, and that they aid in the assimilation of knowledge. At the same time, Campbell warned of the malleability of emotion and the consequent risk in terms of suggestibility:

"[Emotions] are not supplanters of reason, or even rivals in her sway; they are her handmaids, by whose ministry she is enabled to usher truth into the heart, and procure it to favorable reception. As handmaids, they are liable to be seduced by sophistry in the garb of reason, and sometimes are made ignorantly to lend their aid in the introduction of falsehood."



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25 Jan 2015, 11:04 am

tomato wrote:
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Disagreeing with Seneca that emotion was a corrupter of reason, the 18th century English philosopher George Campbell argued, instead, that emotions were allies of reason, and that they aid in the assimilation of knowledge. At the same time, Campbell warned of the malleability of emotion and the consequent risk in terms of suggestibility:

"[Emotions] are not supplanters of reason, or even rivals in her sway; they are her handmaids, by whose ministry she is enabled to usher truth into the heart, and procure it to favorable reception. As handmaids, they are liable to be seduced by sophistry in the garb of reason, and sometimes are made ignorantly to lend their aid in the introduction of falsehood."


Yes, truly, there is a regulation IN balance of emotions that must be maintained to get the 'three bears', 'just right'. :)

The three bears being self, ego, and spirit or what some folks term emotional contagion and/or affective empathy with other humans and Mother Nature True at large. :)

And what I use as symbols of i for self, I for ego, and ! for SPIRIT. :)

THE true TRINITY, AS FAR AS THESE 'EYES' CAN SEE. :)

AND WHEN INTEGRATED a force of one WITH THE ONE FORCE OF Mother Nature True per ALL THAT IS AKA GOD2 AS 1 FORCE!


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