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From what we all have
learned and accept, women have been the scourge of society since the beginning
of time, supposedly. Women are to blame
for so much, as it goes in religious allegory, a woman committed the first act
of blasphemy, condemning the entire human race to not just death, but stripping
them of paradise. In mythology there was
a decade of war, centered on a human female descendant of Zeus. Two men were fighting for her “love” and
their desire for her to belong to either one or the other. We are first taught that a woman’s menstrual
cycle is her curse, the result of her damning all mankind by knocking them down
from living amongst the gods, or being close to the Almighty. If women are allegedly innate evil,
conniving, and destructive specimens, it would only make sense to disregard
them in humanity. What we perceive as
evil we view it as the ultimate negativity.
Therefore it only makes sense to attempt to drown out the
re-establishing of a woman’s power. For
centuries there has been war on women, relentless efforts to silence feminist
voices, and dominate societies with a hetero-normative male perspective on
life. Since the female gender is as
powerful as the male gender to over shadow that truth, history books
misconstrue information, and they omit pre-history from curriculums. The only
women who are “weaker and the lesser gender” are the women who choose to accept
and follow patriarchal rules. These
women, too, are patriarchist and guilty of oppression. With such a vast support system from simple
minded men and women, society works overtime to control anything outside of its
norm.
Historically, the
phallocentric organization goes to extreme measures to prevent a revolution of
equality. Their methods of oppression
range from denying people the privilege to learn, forcing people to work in
unsanitary conditions, feeding people their unwanted scraps of food if at all,
disbanding families, and using a lot of violence as power. They overpower cultural supremacy in politics
and foreign policies, and still manifest spiritual/religious persecution
deeming who’s diety is more real and more right than the next; the firmest grip
of maltreatment society has on a group of people is the cruelty they exercise
on the feminist population. Everything
that feminism stands for: female freedom, LGBTQ equality, individuality, human
unity and civil liberties, patriarchy engulfs it and controls it. Any deviation from structure of patriarchal
practices means punishment. Feminism
contradicts what patriarchy represents: control, fear, gender guidelines, and
oppression. Any form of political
expression that gets “too radical” the conservative opinion forces a negative
connotation to it. All alternatives to
what we know as tradition is generalized, all people who are ignorant to
feminism brush it off as hypersexual, man-hating, dirty, overbearing, hippie
lesbians with a penis complex; they aren’t scholarly and they have no home
training or they are a bunch of weak, insecure, sexually abstruse, lazy, effeminate
men with little to no self-esteem. We
come off as obnoxious because we show up to political debates with our
opinions; we are labeled riotous when we exercise our freedoms of expression,
speech, and assembly. There is no mutual
empathy and good cause in the phallocentric way of life only take, conquer,
control and kill, it is in his story. Which means history is also catered to
the male line of knowledge and agreement.
They attach the element of fear to feminism and have people completely
against it, keeping them expendable sheep of society, or those who believe in
human rights equal for all people – women, men, male, and female – repudiate the
term in fear of being associated with misconduct and keep themselves consistent
to the group think, because feminist are bad people, they are against the
greater good, they cause issues, they are the problem, they are getting out of
hand and if they can’t be controlled they must be silenced.
