The patriarchy that oppresses us all

Yet another – sorry, I hope to change the subject after this one.

Yes but that’s a different sense of “defined.” A very different sense. Feminism has not been fighting for over a century for women to stop being women or stop being called women; it has been fighting for women to stop being limited and confined by their sex.

But wait, it gets worse.

To what end? We’ve seen to what end. Look at Rachel McKinnon and the other male athletes competing against women to see to what end. Look at Jessica Yaniv to see to what end. Look at Morgane Oger. Look at men in prison transing so that they can live among women instead of men. Look at men getting elected Women’s Officer in universities and political parties.

But even more to the point…if the boundary between female and male is arbitrary, what can she possibly mean by “patriarchy”? What is it? What does it do? How does it oppress us? Why should we take it down?

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