Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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