#femalesubordination — Public Fediverse posts

"Headline Of The Day

Public Notice: 'A government by toxic men, for toxic men.'”

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-hard-truth-is-that-donald-trump

"Passion and vigor, a brash and cocksure manliness, a Führer whose countenance fairly radiated these virtues —a nation was smitten. It felt good to be a German, again."

~ Ibid.

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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"German Protestant leaders were united in their praise of the Nazi regime. 'Christ has come to us through Adolf Hitler,' one minister gushed. 'Through his power, his honesty, his faith and his idealism ... the Redeemer has found us, [and] we know the Savior today has come!'"

~ Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014), p. 133

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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"I had no innocence left to lose. I have very little hope left to abandon. This is the America my fellow citizens want, and the one in which I will live out my days."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63013248/jack-smith-jan-6-case-trump-dismissed/

“Nostalgia for better times is also part of the equation, since the ruler’s vow is to make the country great again. This involves the fantasy of returning to an age when male authority was secure and women, people of color, and workers knew their places” (p. 67).

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen (2020), p. 67

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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"It’s a great country for criminal, old, white men."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/its-good-to-be-a-rich-white-criminal

“The leader’s displays of machismo and his kinship with other male leaders are not just bluster, but a way of exercising power at home and conducting foreign policy. Virility enables his corruption, projecting the idea that he is above laws that weaker individuals must follow."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen (2020), pp. 7-8

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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"Make America Great Again always meant returning America to a time when rich white men had power to subjugate others with impunity."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gaetz-hegseth-rfk-jr-toxic-men-cabinet

“Attacking trans women, and representing the feared other as a threat to the manhood of the nation, are ways of placing the very idea of manhood at the center of political attention, gradually introducing fascist ideals of hierarchy and domination by physical power to the public sphere.”

~ Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works (2018), p. 137

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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"Neofascism (as exemplified by Trump, Viktor Orbán, and Vladimir Putin) is organized around male dominance. Women are relegated to subservient roles."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #fascism #gender #misogyny #women #FemaleSubordination #patriarchy #masculinity #MaleDominance
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-testosterone-poisoned-picks

“Everything from birth control to condoms to IVF would have been immoral in the world I grew up in. They all resemble an attempt to play God, to take control over our bodies, our fertility, the number of our children. … A woman who tried to control her own body was a woman who hated families, hated herself, hated God” (pp. 215-6).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“Patriarchy thrives anywhere men are praised for their will to dominate – and Christian patriarchy blesses this pursuit of earthly power by imagining it's a heavenly duty. Like abuse, Christian patriarchy, at its core, is about power and control – at any cost” (p. 212).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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Instead I wish they would say, ‘That was wrong.’ I wish they could acknowledge how they are tied to a broader group of people, that they would seek accountability and justice instead of washing their hands clean of the so-called bad apples” (p. 200).

“I am not the prodigal, and I am never returning to my father” (p. 202).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“When I tell my story, some Christians will say, ‘That wasn't really Christian. Your church wasn't really Christian.’ It's easier to call my story an anomaly than to face the reality that Christians have caused both great good and great harm. But that only perpetuates the problem, and the harm. (continued in /15)

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“For a long time after leaving the Christian patriarchy movement, I still went to church, wanting to hold on to a divinity that loves me, while throwing away all that has harmed me. But the very experience of being inside a church building, interacting with people who seem to have no problems with church and no questions about God, became too much for me” (p. 197).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“I was raised on a fundamentalism that kept me thinking in binaries. We were ‘us,’ and the world was ‘them.’ You were either evil or good; There was no fence-sitting” (p. 194).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“He was a reader of our diaries, a listener to our phone calls. He controlled every aspect of our lives. He found a home in the Christian patriarchy movement because that justified this control. Perhaps authoritarianism was the outcome of his own anxiety or insecurity. Maybe he would have joined any group if it meant he could be in charge” (p. 176).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“According to Dad, I was a rebellious, sinful, disobedient feminist – the worst insult he could imagine. I've grown up hearing things like feminists want to be free from the family, feminists destroy families.

I worried that it might be true, that I was killing my family” (p. 132).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“On Facebook and blogs, I found stories of homeschoolers who had survived abuse. Reading their stories was like reading my own” (p. 123).

“I had been told so many times that I needed to submit to my father no matter what, that I mistook his abuse and control over my life for love” (p. 124).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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Slowly words surfaced, coalescing into a description of my reality: control, authoritarianism, manipulation, coercion, abuse (p. 122).

“I didn't know what to do when I found out that spiritual abuse was using God and the Bible to control someone, that my father had shamed me into submission by telling me I was sinful if I made decisions for myself” (p. 123).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism #gender
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“My father would make me try on clothes for him to approve, and he would often scan my body, look over my shoulder down at my top, check my him and neckline to ensure I was covered, my curves unseen, my skin hidden” (p. 66).

“When Matthew’s letters came in the mail, my father would open them and read them first, to make sure there was nothing inappropriate or overly emotional in them” (p. 84).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #complementarianism
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I'm sharing some passages from the book that struck me as insightful:

“I am calling this a movement because Christian patriarchy is an ideology that cuts across many Protestant denominations. Some might call it a cult, a high-control group ruled by hierarchy and oppression” (p. 4).

“Cover up. This was one of the first rules I learned” (p. 9).

#Christian #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #FemaleSubordination #gender #complementarianism
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"Mounting evidence from exercise science indicates that women are physiologically better suited than men to endurance efforts such as running marathons. This advantage bears on questions about hunting because a prominent hypothesis contends that early humans are thought to have pursued prey on foot over long distances until the animals were exhausted."

#gender #male #female #women #MaleDominance #MaleEntitlement #FemaleSubordination
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You know how among primitive humans men did the hunting and women did what women are supposed to do — stayed "home" taking care of the children and the home front while their brave men brought home the bacon? We all know this is how things worked back then.

But it appears what we have "known" doesn't fit the facts. As Cara Ocobock and Sarah Lacy report,

#gender #male #female #women #MaleDominance #MaleEntitlement #FemaleSubordination
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/