A powerful post on patriarchy
From Bobbie at Emerging Sideways in a post entitled “pondering on patriarchy”
i realized as i wrote yesterday that this damaged their souls too. neither one of them “fit” the code or knew the rules. my mother was as passionate and outspoken as i am and my father was so content and happy behind the scenes helping everywhere he could. both of them were squeezed, prodded and shamed into becoming something at church that neither of them had the skills, spiritual gifts or natural inclination to be. respect for themselves and each other plummeted. and i could sense it like they sent of pheromones of falseness and fear, panic and confusion.
i began to wonder if the shame this type of enforced hierarchy brings imprisons not only the women forced into it, but also the men themselves.
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