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In reply to the discussion: Witchwind: "No woman is heterosexual" [View all]Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)She seems to be identifying the more subtle and hidden reach of patriarchy and how to defeat it. I see what she sees too, even as a straight male. And notice, she writes "under patriarchy." In other words, she doesn't say women should back away from men under some new or evolved social paradigm or contract between them. Just under the corrupted existing one. She's absolutely right. The only way to defeat patriarchy, whether conscious or unconscious - at every level, both loud patriarchy and quiet patriarchy - is to stop feeding it. Stop rewarding it with social and biological selection. That's the only way men will evolve out of dominant patriarchal behavior. They have to be forced to survive without it. The men who are able to do this will then be rewarded by selection by women. The men who refuse will hopefully die the &@&% off. That's evolution.