meltem
@m3lun
16 okur puanı
Ocak 2019 tarihinde katıldı
We see that powerful women are bad, and that good women are inert. We see that men are always good, no matter what they do, or do not do.
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Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow-white, Rapunzel —all are characterized by passivity, beauty, innocence, and victimization. They are archetypal good women— victims by definition. They never think, act, initiate, confront, resist, challenge, feel, care, or question. Some times they are forced to do housework.
They have one scenario of passage. They are moved, as if inert, from the house of the mother to the house of the prince. First they are objects of malice, then they are objects of romantic adoration. They do nothing to warrant either.
Death is our only remedy. We imagine heaven.
There is no suffering there, we say. There is no sex there, we say. We mean, there is no culture there. We mean, there is no gender there. We dream that death will release us from suffering—from guilt, sex, the body. We recognize the body as the source of our suffering.
The nature of women’s oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable ter ritory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children—we are tangled, hope lessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.
In Women and Madness Dr. Phyllis Chesler showed that mental institutions are prisons for women who rebel against society’s well-defined female role.
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