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Adventures in The Patriarchy™: Dishwork Trauma

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Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgenders — from The Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.

Abortion activist vs. abortion survivor: A mesmerizing exchange

Below is a microcosm of what happens when ideological conviction based on theory meets face-to-face reality, when the abstract meets the concrete.

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You can see the activist initially grasp at some ideological retort to the heartfelt plea from the abortion survivor that her life matters but — whether because her humanity overtakes her or because she can’t think of a comeback or because she understands any response along the lines of her previous comments would just come off as callous (or worse) based on what she had just heard and her argument would fall on deaf ears — she falters.

I don’t want to add any trite commentary here; the thing speaks for itself, and it’s powerful.

So powerful, in fact, that it, perhaps briefly, restored my faith in humanity.

Seemingly mentally competent adolescent has emotional meltdown as mother forces her to do dishes

I’m not entirely certain that this video falls perfectly into the Adventures in the Patriarchy™ purview.

At any rate, watch this seemingly fully functional teenage girl performatively gag at a piece of Tupperware while her mother films what is apparently her child’s first attempt at dishwork, and then consider what cultural forces may have contributed to the spectacle.

My guess is that this is not entirely feminism’s doing, but perhaps it’s not partially not feminism’s doing either, if that makes any sense.

Related: Poll: Liberal Women Experience Worst Mental Health of All Demographics

Meanwhile, in Iran…

While American teenage girls treat menial household chores like waterboarding, we can glean a real bit of oppression here. 

The #MeToo movement having spared Iran its wrath, a bearded regime cleric likens women to farm animals, in the sense that Allah created them “for men to use.” He adds, as an extra spicy addendum, that the only reason women don’t look actually like farm animals, even though that’s pretty much what they are, is that Allah, in his infinite wisdom, didn’t want them to frighten men. 

And that's like cows and sheep. God created them so that people have food. God created one more type of animal, and that is women. They're just like cows and sheep. They are animals. God has only created them for men to use. But God created these women to look like humans so that they wouldn't frighten the men. Aside from that, women are just like cows, sheep, horses, and mules.

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