it's wild to read how women are really fucking sick of patriarchy while men are like "wait, this rules!
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it's wild to read how women are really fucking sick of patriarchy while men are like "wait, this rules! You mean we get to have more power over women?? I'm in!"
while at the same time reading Caliban and the Witch and how witch burnings were used to force women into patriarchy-controlled poverty
https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998?syn-25a6b1a6=1
This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)
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This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)
@susankayequinn this is very much on my to read pile. I suppose saying I’m looking forward to it is not quite right. But I am.
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This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)
meanwhile, an entire cultural effort is being made to convince women to submit to men/patriarchy...
"traditional men want the services they believe only women should provide, such as emotional support and housework. But they also believe women are beneath them and, in fact, exist to serve them. So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/ -
meanwhile, an entire cultural effort is being made to convince women to submit to men/patriarchy...
"traditional men want the services they believe only women should provide, such as emotional support and housework. But they also believe women are beneath them and, in fact, exist to serve them. So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/Yep. Patriarchy goes back millennia. Expanding my bsky reply:
Caliban & the Witch is an important read. Suppressed herstory. Pairs well with Daniel Quinn's Ishmael that explains how dominant culture became #Patriarchy.
(Read Ishmael years ago; hopefully no problematic bits!)
Ishmael is fiction that speaks truth to power.
Jibes w archeologist Marija Gimbutas's work about the turn from Neolithic to Bronze age in Europe. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BjE2-H1R9Zs
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@susankayequinn this is very much on my to read pile. I suppose saying I’m looking forward to it is not quite right. But I am.
@Talia I've owned a copy for almost a decade and just now getting around to reading it but HOLY CRAP is it super relevant to right now.
(A friend called it important suppressed herstory and YES)
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@Talia I've owned a copy for almost a decade and just now getting around to reading it but HOLY CRAP is it super relevant to right now.
(A friend called it important suppressed herstory and YES)
@susankayequinn ok, I'm moving it up the pile!
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@Talia I've owned a copy for almost a decade and just now getting around to reading it but HOLY CRAP is it super relevant to right now.
(A friend called it important suppressed herstory and YES)
@susankayequinn @Talia I felt like that when watching the Handmaid's Tale because how the story started there is literally what's happening in places like the US right now... and somehow everyone is ok with that? WTF? We need more angry women in the world, I salute you! -
meanwhile, an entire cultural effort is being made to convince women to submit to men/patriarchy...
"traditional men want the services they believe only women should provide, such as emotional support and housework. But they also believe women are beneath them and, in fact, exist to serve them. So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/Yeah, seriously, why would those manosphere dudes respect their servants and slaves? Why would they cherish someone who almost literally is their property?
Loving slaves is a waste of emotion. It requires empathy, and as Elon Musk teaches those men, empathy is the enemy.
Of course, MAGA dudes don't love their wives.
As with everything, their propaganda is lies.
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meanwhile, an entire cultural effort is being made to convince women to submit to men/patriarchy...
"traditional men want the services they believe only women should provide, such as emotional support and housework. But they also believe women are beneath them and, in fact, exist to serve them. So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/Strongly recommend women read The Gate To Women's Country, by Sherri S Tepper.
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This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)
@susankayequinn ugh. Makes me want to get out my witch broom and snack some behinds.
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Strongly recommend women read The Gate To Women's Country, by Sherri S Tepper.
@BrambleBearSnoring @susankayequinn can you tell us a bit more about why you think it's relevant?
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@susankayequinn ugh. Makes me want to get out my witch broom and snack some behinds.
@susankayequinn like that of my boss who loves saying things like "women are just naturally better at childcare".
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@BrambleBearSnoring @susankayequinn can you tell us a bit more about why you think it's relevant?
The story illustrates 1 way women build a society that actively deals with that element in male psychology, behavior, violence. As a post-apocalyptic story, some things would be very difficult to implement now. But the essential concept is worth reflecting on for anyone who can give birth.
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@susankayequinn this is very much on my to read pile. I suppose saying I’m looking forward to it is not quite right. But I am.
Mine too. Saving for when I have enough equanimity stored to risk the cortisol explosion unlocking all that rage will trigger.
Reminds me-Rage Becomes Her
The Power of Women's AngerBy Soraya Chemaly
Title if someone wants to write it, or better yet we enact it- Twelve Million Angry Women
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meanwhile, an entire cultural effort is being made to convince women to submit to men/patriarchy...
"traditional men want the services they believe only women should provide, such as emotional support and housework. But they also believe women are beneath them and, in fact, exist to serve them. So expressing gratitude, much less holding women in respect, is experienced as emasculating."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/Patriarchy: "Let's imprison women for trying to get an abortion after a man rapes them!"
gee, I wonder why women are angry enough to levitate
https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-is-off-major-anti-abortion
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@susankayequinn ugh. Makes me want to get out my witch broom and snack some behinds.
@susankayequinn SMACK. I smack them, not snack them. Bad phone.
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The story illustrates 1 way women build a society that actively deals with that element in male psychology, behavior, violence. As a post-apocalyptic story, some things would be very difficult to implement now. But the essential concept is worth reflecting on for anyone who can give birth.
@BrambleBearSnoring @susankayequinn thanks!
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@susankayequinn SMACK. I smack them, not snack them. Bad phone.
@lizzard @susankayequinn first one, then the other!
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This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)
@susankayequinn ALL of Federici's work is enraging. Read everything she's written!
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@susankayequinn ALL of Federici's work is enraging. Read everything she's written!
@seijin oh heck, I will have to look into her work more deeply when I finish this!
