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cruelsister-moved2 · 2 years ago

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reading the creation of patriarchy is genuinely making me cry... it has really serious flaws and i disagree with parts quite majorly but any time i think about the genuine hopelessness and complete dehumanisation the vast majority of women in history lived through i just go so crazy and im torn because sometimes i feel so hopeless about the way things are today and i see how many men still fundamentally hold ideas, but i also cant even comprehend the enormity of suffering that was basically an unquestioned part of women’s experiences for thousands of years... like the fact it took society so long to even care 😭 like “There had never been any woman or group of women who had lived without male protection, as far as most women knew. There had never been any group of persons like them who had done anything significant for themselves. Women had no history—so they were told; so they believed.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#like im trying to lift up all the important contributions women did make to history etc and #i dont subscribe to the fatalism of acting like women never like experienced joy and peace and education and love etc in the past #why i love [redacted] and will defend it as very progressive in its own way #because at least it listens to the suffering of women and sees them as people and imagines what emotions they must have felt #the fact we dont even have that so much of the time is what makes me want to cry #literally the greatest tragedy of all time but the very fact it's so embedded prevents us from even acknowledging just how unthinkably #terrible it is #like even me when i think of historical women it rarely sinks in just how bad it was

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