Yeah, freedom is hard and scary. When you’re free you’re capable of making the wrong choice. You bear the responsibility for your actions and decisions and there’s always the possibility that the other shoe from one of your decisions will drop. These women don’t understand that a lot of these men are arrogant buffoons who won’t listen to wisdom if it comes out of a female mouth unless they already thought it.
I believe the solution is community support and social safety nets. When we minimize some of the risks freedom feels better, but on some level it will always be scary.
These people could just accept that what they want is to have a partner who they agree is in charge, but no they insist on trying to force every woman to submit to men.
Unfortunately pared with this attitude is the magic thinking that ‘as long as everyone follows The Rules and keeps to Their Proper Place then nothing bad will happen ever’. They literally believe that The Hierarchy is the only thing keeping civilization from disintegrating into chaos.
It’s not that they don’t realize they’re buffoons, it’s that the buffoons are ‘following The Rules’ and so are they, so that buffoonery will never be turned on them.
Paired with this is the belief that everyone thinks exactly as they do, just some people are too stupid to realize it. So they need to exert The Rules and The Hierarchy to help those poor other people see sense.
Yeah, freedom is hard and scary. When you’re free you’re capable of making the wrong choice. You bear the responsibility for your actions and decisions and there’s always the possibility that the other shoe from one of your decisions will drop. These women don’t understand that a lot of these men are arrogant buffoons who won’t listen to wisdom if it comes out of a female mouth unless they already thought it.
I believe the solution is community support and social safety nets. When we minimize some of the risks freedom feels better, but on some level it will always be scary.
These people could just accept that what they want is to have a partner who they agree is in charge, but no they insist on trying to force every woman to submit to men.
Unfortunately pared with this attitude is the magic thinking that ‘as long as everyone follows The Rules and keeps to Their Proper Place then nothing bad will happen ever’. They literally believe that The Hierarchy is the only thing keeping civilization from disintegrating into chaos.
It’s not that they don’t realize they’re buffoons, it’s that the buffoons are ‘following The Rules’ and so are they, so that buffoonery will never be turned on them.
Paired with this is the belief that everyone thinks exactly as they do, just some people are too stupid to realize it. So they need to exert The Rules and The Hierarchy to help those poor other people see sense.