Bait and Switch.
“Patriarchy is not men.
Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate.
It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women.
It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.
This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly.
We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.”
That pull quote was from an INSANELY intelligent and thought provoking blog post by none other than Ashley Judd. Read the full article here. You could also read my post Dead Women: The New Porn.
Richard Drew
