Hey friends! SO, I just launched a longform chat on YouTube (Coco_Has_Ideas) where we do a deep dive into patriarchy - and how it perpetuates through belief, structure, and culture. Below is a roadmap to our discussion - the visual is over at YouTube and the audio here is exported from that post.
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Today we’re talking about how patriarchy functions as a system of belief, a social system, and a culture. As a system of belief, patriarchy is a fantasy of male supremacy - that men are innately superior and women are innately inferior. This belief system requires a binary biologically determined understanding of gender - only men and women exist because that is required to perpetuate the binary social roles the social system of patriarchy creates.
This is why patriarchy rejects all queer, gay, and trans orientations as well - it must maintain this binary assignment of social roles assigned at birth that people are required to perform and conform to.
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Patriarchy is the social system of male private for profit ownership of women as their means of production - literally in terms of creating life through pregnancy and child rearing, but as producing all human needs for men to consume without participation, compensation, or reciprocity.
Under patriarchy, women are relegated to the private sphere - the domestic sphere, the non-public sphere outside of society. Women’s social role is to perform all knowledge, labor, planning, and management related to meeting basic human needs - from cooking all meals, creating and maintaining a healthy home, laundry, cleaning, care for the sick and elderly, ensuring appropriate clothing for all household members, and proactively anticipating and meeting all needs for all household members - children and men alike.
This includes all labor, care, and investment related to child development, cultural observations and celebrations, and creating and maintaining social connections. Men do not participate or recognize any of this work and effort - they just consume it.
All social systems create and perpetuate a culture - the culture of patriarchy is male narcissism. Patriarchal cultures center men as full human beings - diminishing women as something inferior and less human. This functions to justify the exploitation and male for profit ownership of women and to silence the voices and experiences of women.
All social systems are the manifestation of the belief system. Social systems create and perpetuate a culture and that culture is what conditions us into performing the social roles that constitute the system through established norms, responsibilities, values, and indoctrinated patterns of interaction.
We discuss how all of these elements work together to maintain and perpetuate the fantasy of innate male supremacy that requires the subjugation of women as infrastructure designed to serve men’s needs and perform for their pleasure.
All social systems are patriarchal - all of our political and economic structures were designed assuming that only men participate in society, and that every male privately owns a woman to be his means of production and to perform all work to meet basic needs without compensation. Undermining patriarchy strikes at the heart of all systems of exploitation and extraction because men lose ownership of women and their needs go unmet - unless they choose to develop basic life skills and cooperative capacities.
This is why conservative movements discourage investments in community based infrastructure to cooperatively work to manage meeting human needs together - it undermines a man’s private, for profit ownership of women.
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