Understanding Patriarchy - NO BORDERS

Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word Patriarchy in everyday life. Most men never think about Patriarchy what it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in our nation would not be able to spell the word or pronounce it correctly. The word Patriarchy just is not a part of their normal everyday thought or speech. Men who have heard and know the word usually associate it with women s liberation, with feminism, and therefore dismiss it as irrelevant to their own experiences.

use his rage to oppose the wishes of his parents, but later, when he grew up, he was taught that rage was permitted and that allowing rage to provoke him to violence would help him protect home and nation. We lived in farm country, isolated from other people. Our sense of gender roles was learned from our parents, from the ways we saw them behave.

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