Feminists are incoherent on the subject. They have no working definition of patriarchy but see it in everything.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Yes, I agree with that. But do you have a working definition of your own that you're using to judge that it doesn't (in modern west) exist?
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @GodDoesnt
The standard definition that I gave in my last tweet after you wrote this.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
OK, fair enough. Fwiw, I completely agree that when there's no vestige of patriarchy in formal laws, then it basically doesn't exist.
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @GodDoesnt
Then we are left with some attitudes & the important job of negotiating our way through those that are limiting & those that aren't.
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This is best done in ppl's own lives. eg rather than blaming patriarchy for an expectation that women will do more housework, show it false
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By not doing it if you don't want to. If you do want to & this works out well for you as a couple, everyone else should leave you alone.
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Coz what we need to do now is support the idea that people are individuals & need conform to no gender roles.
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Once this is established as a norm, we needn't worry if many gendered trends of preferences still exist.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
I guess the problem is that norms are pretty intangible things, so always possible to argue about how much there is still to do.
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Which is why the emphasis needs to be on individuality, autonomy, empowerment & accepting non-conformism. So we can see what emerges.
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