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By saying Smash The Patriarchy, or Down With The Patriarchy, we are employing the same concept; one which involves taking apart an exploitative power structure. I was dismayed to discover that what hadn’t been acceptable in the late 1980s and early 1990s was still going on, now in the 2000s! I took on a one-woman mission of awareness raising and agitation around all the sexist and unfair rules still in play, and my first target was the ‘only boys get to change into trainers at playtime’ rule! I am Melanie Childers. And I am also a feminist entrepreneur coach, helping women that be bad bitches in their business and take up all the space and make smart, scalable, powerful business decisions that help them create this sustainable growth that they want for the life of their business without hustling or burning out.
Many of the ideas we consider universally held are simply the social norms in our own culture. Liberté, égalité, fraternité may be values worth dying for in France, for instance, but personal freedom is not considered important or desirable for other societies, which prioritise values such as purity instead. Consider the idea of responsibility. In my culture, if you deliberately hurt a person or their property this is considered a much worse crime than if you did it by accident, but in other cultures, children and adults are punished according to the outcome of their actions – intentionality is considered impossible to grasp and therefore largely irrelevant. You can start by purchasing from local businesses run by them, patronising their platforms, and offering monetary assistance when it comes to fulfilling their entrepreneurship goals. The reason why parents impose patriarchy at homes is that they too have been oppressed by it. They inherited it from their parents to raise the boys and girls differently. Until your parents identify the ways patriarchy has dictated their lives, they cannot understand why there is a need to bring a change. Ask your mother if she had some dreams that remained unfulfilled and why was so? Was it because her parents didn't allow? Or her in-laws restricted her? Why didn't she speak up? Would she want her daughter to remain silent like she (mother) was expected to? Not only mothers but know about father's life also and help them understand that patriarchy is not a norm; it is an enforced ideology based power relations. And we as free humans have the right to have our own plans.
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Nowadays, following the second wave feminism of the 20 th century, it is a word used to refer to the social power held by men, and the subsequent oppression of women through that power. In this sense, patriarchy refers to a social, not biological, dominance. Like I said before, it can be exhausting battling sexism day in and day out. The members of Mommy Long Legs have their own wonderful antidote for this: humour. In the summer months, things got a bit better because we were allowed on the grass field, meaning that there was more room for everyone. Then during the sentence structuring phase, blatant gender binaries are even more glaring. Children have been learning for decades that my father goes to office and my mother cooks food at home, and prepares tasty dishes for us during festivals. With over 100 snippets of famous and infamous women who have gone against the rules, any which way they could, this is a very enlightening book. There are fascinating stories of women like Germaine De Staël, who ran salons and had the audacity to tell Napoleon how he should run his campaigns, which got her sent into exile.
When a class of people is oppressed by another, the former has every right to be angered by it. In fact, to expect anything other than anger is profoundly ignorant. Signs are difficult to create to be simple and effective (easily understood), and this one, created around 1924, but not popularized until 1960/1970s as the standard ‘female’ pictogram, is still the standard used across most of Europe, Asia and The Americas. Even at this point in the year, when pressure on the hard surface playground had been relieved some, girls were not allowed to play netball on the netball court outside of the official netball club run by the teachers. In contrast to men who prioritize their own professional ambitions, the study noted that the number one reason women academics gave for refusing an external offer of employment was that their male partners were not offered appropriate employment at the new location. The availability of a job for their partners outweighed other key considerations such as salary, benefits, research funds, or opportunities for promotion. And since getting a decent raise in academia usually requires moving to a new university, women’s relative immobility exacerbates the gender pay gap.
The patriarchal society we live in is just as harmful to men and boys as it is for women and girls and people who identify as gender diverse or nonbinary. There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.” – Adrienne Rich How does the patriarchy affect society?
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