Not technically, no. This wld not be an example of a society in which men have all the power unless they did that first &then made that rule
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
But is the word "all" there essential to the idea of patriarchy, as propounded by most feminists?
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @GodDoesnt
The word means 'rule of the fathers' as I'm sure you know. Unless men have power to rule & women don't & men can rule women, no patriarchy
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Sure. But wouldn't there be something short of "a" patriarchy, in the full sense you describe, ("patriarcish"... ?) worth worrying about?
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @GodDoesnt
There could be and was until very recently. Here in UK, women got right to decline sex with husband in 1990.Last area of patriarchy, sort of
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Feminists should organise an annual celebration of that date!
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @GodDoesnt
That was about the time we stopped celebrating progress and decided everything was awful & was always going to be awful.
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Mostly because a lot of the reasonable ones who only wanted legal equality considered job done leaving the feminism-as-identity ideologues
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And because of the shift to postmodernism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Indeed. Spkg of which, did you get around to Sexual Personae? I think Paglia wd agree on all that, but might be too metaphysical for you(?).
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