I've long been a believer that patriarchy crushes men as much as it crushes women. "Real men" are allowed an abyssmally short list of subjects they're allowed to safely talk about without compromising their masculinity. So shall we talk about cars, pussy, beer, sports, or our jobs today? God forbid you have any interests outside this pre-prescribed sphere. Even worse is the emotional castration. Men are allowed to act: bored, angry, arrogant, or neutral, but forget about expressing grief or genuine enthusiasm. That's for fags.
Women are definitely a crushed and objectified second class, but at least they're allowed to express a wider range of interests, beliefs, and emotions. Kind of like a thriving slave culture.
So who's got it worse? The person who is made out to be an object to be collected or the one who's forbidden to express the basic human emotion of sadness? I couldn't say which is worse, but it's pretty obvious both parties are getting fucked by the system.
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regna
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Date: 2009-01-14 07:36 pm (UTC)Women are definitely a crushed and objectified second class, but at least they're allowed to express a wider range of interests, beliefs, and emotions. Kind of like a thriving slave culture.
So who's got it worse? The person who is made out to be an object to be collected or the one who's forbidden to express the basic human emotion of sadness? I couldn't say which is worse, but it's pretty obvious both parties are getting fucked by the system.