I CAN'T TAKE GUSS'AK LAND ANYMORE.
We had read several articles all centering on the topic of Violence Against Women in my philosophy class and this morning we were discussing all of them. The last article we talked about was entitled, "The Inevitability of the Patriarchism.”
I should point out that there is one kid in class that drives me insane. I’m sure that he’s going to become a politician of some form or other because he can spend 5 minutes saying absolutely nothing, just to hear himself speak. He makes ridiculous comparisons and loves generalizations and stereotypes. And yet somehow everyone in class thinks he’s intelligent. His latest bit of wisdom was to state unequivocally that men who rape women are like boys who abuse cats, they both have psychological problems and the reason that he’s not going to go out and rape someone is that he doesn’t have any psychological problems. He also recently compared pregnancy to “uncontrollable diarrhea” in terms of how it affects one’s career.
So, we’re discussing the article on patriarchism, and the general consensus of the class is that the author is correct, men have always been the dominant rulers of society. They don’t all agree on the fact that it’s how it should be, but many people kept bringing up the “fact” that all societies throughout history have been patriarchal. My response to the author’s argument was merely to say that his position completely disregarded the hundreds if not thousands of matriarchal societies that have also existed. I sited Native American societies such as the Iroquois or Seneca and other indigenious groups in Indonesia.
The response? Yes, but they didn’t last very long.
Me: Um…if by not long you mean only several thousand years, then yes, you’re right.
Yeah, but where are they now? They’re all dead…They were squashed.
He actually said that they were squashed. I had no response. I’ve never actually been insulted like that before. It’s one thing for me to joke about all the natives being dead…but fuck.
I should point out that there is one kid in class that drives me insane. I’m sure that he’s going to become a politician of some form or other because he can spend 5 minutes saying absolutely nothing, just to hear himself speak. He makes ridiculous comparisons and loves generalizations and stereotypes. And yet somehow everyone in class thinks he’s intelligent. His latest bit of wisdom was to state unequivocally that men who rape women are like boys who abuse cats, they both have psychological problems and the reason that he’s not going to go out and rape someone is that he doesn’t have any psychological problems. He also recently compared pregnancy to “uncontrollable diarrhea” in terms of how it affects one’s career.
So, we’re discussing the article on patriarchism, and the general consensus of the class is that the author is correct, men have always been the dominant rulers of society. They don’t all agree on the fact that it’s how it should be, but many people kept bringing up the “fact” that all societies throughout history have been patriarchal. My response to the author’s argument was merely to say that his position completely disregarded the hundreds if not thousands of matriarchal societies that have also existed. I sited Native American societies such as the Iroquois or Seneca and other indigenious groups in Indonesia.
The response? Yes, but they didn’t last very long.
Me: Um…if by not long you mean only several thousand years, then yes, you’re right.
Yeah, but where are they now? They’re all dead…They were squashed.
He actually said that they were squashed. I had no response. I’ve never actually been insulted like that before. It’s one thing for me to joke about all the natives being dead…but fuck.