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They Made the Patriarchy, Part Ii

...The hard-core just leave men altogether, but in the rank-and-file there’s a trend of these women speaking of ‘gentle’ guys, then shacking up with the dominant men. Tale old as time, women love the ‘bad boy,’ there instinct responds to his aggression, some deign to marry the ‘sensitive’ guys. but then cheat, and take half their possessions. It is quite the cognitive dissonance, to say one thing, while craving another, their teaching says they should be ‘empowered,’ while their instincts cry, “Make me a mother!” They claim in one breath, “Women rule the world!” but then complain their man isn’t decisive, say they want a man to take care of them, while preaching that such men are repulsive! And this patriarchy the women built, nobody can say that it has not worked, we have built up great civilizations, freed women from most of the threats of this earth. We’ve built huge houses, all climate controlled, machines that will take us any place quick, we grow too much food, our infants don’t die, yet they still get mad, and call us all sick? I think deep down they want what they always did, but are convinced doing so must betray some cause created by unhappy women all the way back in their grandmother’s day, not seeing that those ‘patriarchal men’ are the men that those grandmothers created, seems kind of ungrateful, after all this, for them to proclaim men should be hated.

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