Power & Systems
patriarchy, capitalism, gender, sociology
Power & Systems
exploring the architecture of everyday life
Critical Overview of Patriarchy, Its Interferences With Psychological Development, and Risks for Mental Health
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Queerplatonic love needs to be centered and affirmed more. In a cis-heteronormative patriarchal society, we’re conditioned to value our romantic, nuclear family above all, despite platonic kinship being the thing that continues to further our survival.
https://t.co/bWGudWeGC3
Wear Your Voicex.comDisrupting Cis/Heteronormativity and Interrogating Whiteness: The Advancement of Counseling Through Critical Sex Education
Sociology The Basics - Ken Plummer
The rules governing female appetite — for food, for sexual gratification, for recognition — are culturally constructed to regulate not only how women eat but also what women desire.
susan bordo, unbearable weight
Indeed, even the radical feminist labeling of all men as oppressors and all women as victims was a way to deflect attention away from the reality of men and our ignorance about them.
Bell Hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
When it comes to the business of dating apps, the most relevant principle isn’t necessarily patriarchal, but inherently capitalist: celibate, app-less women are not lucrative, an issue that the entire industry is grappling with.
How Celibate Women Became a Threat
There is a power structure embedded in their language—one that is weaponized for nefarious purposes by constantly invoking symbols of legitimacy to maintain control (also, it’s this part that the left uses like a bunch of superficial and performative idiots)