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Date Posted: 20:49:18 05/15/02 Wed
Author: Icon
Subject: Further
In reply to: Perceptor II 's message, "More replies" on 17:56:28 05/15/02 Wed

>>Our society is not automatically patriarchal. Our
>>political power structure is, as are, ironically, the
>>majority of Christian worship groups, such as the
>>Catholic Church.
>That's very naive of you to say.

And that's very patronsiing of you to say.

>The patriarchal nature of our political structure and
>churches is merely a symptom of the patriarchal attitudes
>found throughout society.

As it tends to be the politicians and religious leaders (to differening proportions) who define the society we live in, it's a self fulfilling loop to assume that

I would also add that in many stereotypical but still valid, scenarios the family unit is still frequently dominated by the mother figure in internal matters, the father being more repsonsible for external matters.

Again, almost ironically this can commonly be found in large scale families such as those condoned by the Catholic faith, and also in Judaism (And as a practicing catholic, who lived and worked for five years in one of the heaviest concentrations of Jewish in the Western World (Muswell Hill in London) I can attest to both sides.

There's also the old saw that women allow men to deal with the politics so they can get on with the real work!

>>it's not the approach I would favour.
>How then do you favor addressing and combatting these
>gender specific myths without being gender specific? I am
>quite curious.

I'd prefer to do it, not by being negative about what was, but about being positive about what is and can be. About stressing the need for equity as a given, not a goal. By putting forward an inspiring concept which can be appreciated as a logical solution by both genders.

"Some people look at the world the way is is and ask 'Why?' I look at the world the way it could be and ask 'Why not?'"

- John F Kenendy

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