No, it's brainwashing that is the biggest obstacle, the cultural residue of five thousand years of patriarchal and misogynistic traditions that train us to sabotage each other. The examples are innumerable. The contemporary form of address "you guys" , ubiquitous in the media and colloquial speech, "disappears" women by canceling us out just as "mankind" and "Mrs." do. Worst of all is the word "God". If you want male domination with all its rape and wars and violence as "entertainment" in sports and the media, this word alone goes far to accomplish it, because a male "supreme being" validates the efforts of males to maintain supremacy.
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No, it's brainwashing that is the biggest obstacle, the cultural residue of five thousand years of patriarchal and misogynistic traditions that train us to sabotage each other. The examples are innumerable. The contemporary form of address "you guys" , ubiquitous in the media and colloquial speech, "disappears" women by canceling us out just as "mankind" and "Mrs." do. Worst of all is the word "God". If you want male domination with all its rape and wars and violence as "entertainment" in sports and the media, this word alone goes far to accomplish it, because a male
"supreme being" validates the efforts of males to maintain supremacy.
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