Psychopatriarchy is a backlash against women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights— the authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity.
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“Where patriarchy is in force and enforced, the human voice is a voice of resistance”. Psychologist Carol Gilligan examines how social expectations can silence women, and why listening to their voices is more important than ever.
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The price of Patriarchy on men: men, throughout their lives, are less likely to receive emotional support. Therefore, it is men who depend more on their romantic partners, for their happiness and, in measurable ways, for their survival.
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When women choose: Study finds “several factors contributing to a lower desire to have children, such as increased labor market opportunities and agency among women, rising financial costs, changing priorities, and [concerns about] maternal mortality”
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Women’s choice— sterilization was a way to control their bodies and health at a time when their reproductive rights are in jeopardy and abortion is banned or restricted in 19 states.
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When she flees she’s blamed for abandonment, or labeled unstable for fleeing. Meanwhile, the coercion, manipulation, intimidation, and abuse that caused those responses are minimized, excused, or ignored. The survivor becomes the problem. The abuse disappears.
In a male supremacy, men are socialized to to own and control women. . A woman’s refusal isn’t seen a boundary. She is punished for challenging men’s authority. The problem was never her refusal to submit. It was his belief that she should have to.
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Sexist expectations and stereotypes compound the marginalisation of Autistic girls and women, increasing their vulnerability to grooming and coercive and controlling behaviour.
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Perpetrators of coercive control abuse their victims in cycles using intermittent reinforcement— a psychological conditioning technique of unpredictably alternating between acts Punishment and sudden, temporary Reward.
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Female breadwinners were also 20 per cent more likely to suffer emotional abuse at the hands of their partner, suggesting men are still not comfortable with shifting traditional gender norms.
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“the larger goal here [repealing the 19th Amendment] is to normalize the idea that women’s citizenship isn’t legitimate.”
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Why are there no female prophets? You’re trying to tell us men were the only ones in possession of wisdom? Sofia Vivienne
The fate of abortion rights in four states on the ballot. Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia have initiatives that would protect abortion rights. Missouri has an amendment on the ballot that undoes the results of the referendum two years ago.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier boasted that he would “use every tool in his office” to eliminate abortion clinics in Florida.
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While only 13 of 902 criminalizing pregnancy cases involved any allegation about an abortion. Each prosecutions sends a message to pregnant people in these abortion banned states that seeking help at a hospital is a place where you can be arrested instead of receiving treatment.
National masculinity insecurity: U.S. rolls out new testostetone screening guidelines for male service members amid “growing concerns about the health of American men and the shrinking pool of young people qualified to serve.”
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research shows some young men already have concerns about the masculinity content they see online.
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Male supremacy is modeled at home: “Boys who expressed an affinity for manoshere personalities reported receiving more messages from their parents encouraging traditional gender expectations and physical toughness.”
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