Smash the Patriarchy: A totally appropriate self-affirming coloring book: 1 (Totally Appropriate Series)

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In the wake of #MeToo, and the outcry for women to speak up and men to be held responsible for their actions, we challenge male aggression and the responses to it. There was also Queen Charlotte of Sweden, who gave up the crown rather then have to marry, and went around dressed in masculine clothes. So, when feminist call to deconstruct the patriarchy, they are referring to a cultural reposition, which changes the cultural concept of the society. Use your white privilege to end your white privilege by using your voice and platform (if you’re white)

Patriarchal societies tend to be built around the perceived biological differences between men and women, but most sociologists argue that the patriarchy is an entirely social construct. Traditionally, men are supposed to be independent, strong, logical, secure and unemotional whereas women are supposed to be dependant, emotional and weak. However, these roles were made for stability, consumption and production not for fulfilling relationships of happiness, respect and intimacy. In 1981 the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW) came into force, with 189 states now signed onto the treaty. Those 189 states agreed to protect and ensure women’s human rights and endeavour to take all reasonable steps to guarantee gender equality. Additionally, states agreed to dismantle social, religious and cultural structures which foster the subordination of women by men. Taking the meaning of patriarchy as a system of power as expressed by bell hooks, this would seem to suggest that CEDAW requires states to dismantle patriarchal structures and attitudes, from the government to the private sphere. Several matriarchal societies exists, though there is a significantly smaller amount in which the reverse happens. A society where women are head of the household and hold the majority of the power but nevertheless they do exist and in those cases women can be just a patriarchal as men. Frasqueri, who is of Afro-Puerto Rican and Taíno descent, spoke about the song with Djali of Mass Appeal, saying: So I suggested that it’d be like using a beard sign to represent men. To which he responded, without irony or sarcasm,In a society where some form of leadership is necessary, we must push for and formulate alternatives to existing, oppressive power structures. This piece is part of a wider project investigating how the concept of “patriarchy” is used in international law. This project continues to interrogate the use of “patriarchy” among treaty monitoring bodies of the remaining seven core international human rights instruments including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights , and the Convention against Torture . A comparative analysis will be completed by the end of 2019. At most times, the father would be wearing a tie and shirt, and carrying a suitcase while the mother would be portrayed in a frumpy saree with a pressure-cooker in the kitchen. Intersectionality is not only imperative to being a better person, it is also central to feminist thinking and to destroy the patriarchy. In Greece, it was only a 1983 Family Law reform that abolished the provision in the Civil Code that automatically established that a married woman’s legal residence was that of her husband. Although new families in many industrialized nations prefer to form their own residences (called neolocality), our deeper history of patrilocality means that men are expected to be breadwinners because a patrilocal culture assumes that the father must be the head of the new household and therefore primarily responsible for its provisioning.

Since times immemorial, rigid gender roles often result in the expectation that women must remain submissive to male family members. It starts with playing second fiddle to their brothers under the watchful eye of their fathers. This trio, originally formed in Brighton, is the coolest thing on six legs. Rakel Mjöll(lead vocals), Alice Go (guitar and vocals), andBella Podpadec(bass and vocals) met in art school and have been making sweet, sweet music together ever since.

We also learn about Hatshepsut, a pharaoh who also happened to be a woman, but dressed as a man, all the way down to wearing a fake beard. With a style of story telling and drawing that reminds one of Kate Beaton, this amusing historical look at strong women is a joy to read. Translated from the Norwegian. Utilizing film to tell these stories associated within the movement of feminism, while deconstructing layers of the long-standing and problematic patriarchy, is more important than ever before. What these films do is spark important conversations around the social status of women in modern day society, while questioning the traditional notions of what female sexuality and femininity should look like (not all women wear short skirts and heels, by the way). If you'd like to see some films that accurately disassemble the authority, influence, and leadership of males in society (because guys should absolutely not tell us what to do), we've created a list consisting of the best films where women prevailed in challenging the status quo. Some days, especially in Women's History Month you want so smash the patriarchy a little harder than others; these movies show women who have. The CEDAW Committee considers “social and cultural patterns of conduct” to include religious, traditional and customary beliefs, ideas, rules and practices. However, “patriarchy” is only explicitly utilised in the concluding observations of some states parties but not in others, reinforcing the problematic distinction between non-western and non-European states versus western and European states. Historically speaking, western society and governments have been patriarchal, but with developing changes in family structures, challenging gender roles, and a with women taking a stand in political/governmental matters, the traditional organisation of a patriarchal society no longer really fits the views and attitudes of today.

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.Gabor Maté in his book, ‘When the Body Says No’, talks about character traits and ways of being around emotional suppression, in both males and females, that are noticeable in those who go on to develop certain cancers and chronic autoimmune and pain conditions. Smash the patriarchy”. It’s a phrase we know all too well. The ambition to collapse the societal constructs that dictates the power and oppression of the people living in it. Since it is a social construct, it can be recognised, and it can be changed, we all just have to play our part. A few ways in how we have challenged the patriarchy lately

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. Consider: men, who tend to be bearers of violence, have their anger legitimised and it turns destructive. The same can happen to others too. Social, technological and behavioural invention are part of our nature – part of what it means to be human. We are driven by culture more than instinct. And our culture influences our environment and our genes. Our extraordinarily flexible, cumulative culture allows us to make ourselves even as we attribute our successes and failings to our genes. We fight against girls wearing pink and playing in the mud. We fight against boys not being allowed to cry or wanting to wear pink.So what that really means to me is that the external culture has created like all of these norms that we're supposed to live by, that don't be too loud or too smart, or too sexy or not sexy enough, and like, there's this perfect little box that you're supposed to fit in. And then we absorb all of that just from growing up with it in the culture, from media from magazine covers, commercials, people that we see portrayed in TV and film. And so we think we're just accidentally by default, this is what brains do is they absorb the culture that we're in. And so we have suddenly have all of these thoughts about who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to look and how we're supposed to operate. And what I find that that happens for most of my clients is that we tend to keep ourselves small to not bust out of this box because there's punishment involved, you will be criticized, you will be slandered, you will be raked over the coals, you will be judged. And that is like the number one fear of most humans is that we don't want to, we don't want that light to be shining on us and to feel the humiliation and shame of when you step out of the box. And so my work really is we have to mess up all of that and start Really standing in your power on your own confidence in your own belief in yourself no matter what the world has to say.