"Come to think of it, every dream our great male visionaries and poets come up with of an ideal society—Plato’s city of Atlantis, Thomas More’s Utopia, Augustine’s City of God, Jesus’s kingdom of God—all of them describe societies defined by #equality, #cooperation, #,co-dependence, #empathy and #unity.

#PatriarchalMasculinity, by contrast, is defined by #hierarchy, competition, independence, stoicism and #isolation. How have we allowed this force to so thoroughly infiltrate our leaders and societies for so long when it is the exact opposite of what we see as ideal?

Truly mind boggling when you think about it."
#Patriarchy

https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/patriarchal-masculinity-runs-the-world

Why aren't we talking about the engine running our world?

It's more important than ever that we understand the drive behind the world's most powerful men.

Matriarchal Blessing

Am I right girls?
"Most, if not absolutely all, women have been in a version of that conversation in their time, and almost all of us have not found the precise words to say in the moment it was happening, instead either coming up with them while stewing on the way home, or two weeks later in the middle of the night (still stewing)."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/29/chatshow-saoirse-ronan-graham-norton-women?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ModernSexism #patriarchalmasculinity #saoriseronan

I don’t expect stone-cold truths from a chatshow, but Saoirse Ronan delivered one

The men on Graham Norton’s sofa found self-defence a hoot. I’m sure most women have found ourselves in that conversation, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian
Are Men Killing the Planet?

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