Yes, Patriarchy Is Dead; the Feminists Prove It

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13. "In ANY movement..."

Really?

Who would you identify in the civil rights movement whose "worst fear" is that racism might be ended?

Who in the GLBT movement would you say is "afraid" homophobia might someday be a thing of the past?

I don't know a single feminist whose afraid that someday sexism and patriarchy might be a thing of the past, let alone that they're already over and we just don't want to admit it!

I doubt you do either. And the fact that you have to qualify this alleged fear by saying "most of the time" they don't even know that's what they're thinking" is very telling.

No offense, but couldn't this be seen as yet another example of some guy trying to tell women "what they REALLY want"? "Here's what they're saying, and here's what they think they're thinking, but I KNOW that deep down they're thinking something entirely different, and what they say they want isn't really what they want at all." Something of a mind-reader, are we now?

As I said in another post on this thread, this article reminds me way much of Rush Limbaugh telling us we live in a "post racial society" and that the contemporary civil rights movement is just an elaborate scam perpetrated on poor, unsuspecting people of color who don't even know they've been liberated!

Personally, I'm skeptical of any claims that centuries old forms of oppression have somehow disappeared from our society. Racism didn't end with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, no matter what Scalia & co. might want to believe. And sexism and the patriarchy sure as hell ain't over--not when we have the legislature of one state passing "rape insurance" legislation, and multiple others requiring women requesting abortions to submit to a "vaginal scan" in order to get the care they require. Not when we have warehouses full of rape kits that various police departments just couldn't be bothered to investigate.

Sorry, I just don't buy it.