Power relations
Conciously or unconsiously our society goes through power relations among gender. Ofcourse men being the "privileged" ones and women going through a benign form of "oppression" .
If we look at the "single relation of power" model analagous with the "teeter totter" (known as see saw in some countries) we see that men are at the higher end and women at the lower as a homogenous group of beings.
Like it or not, believe it or not, men do get an unearned privilege that comes from our social pattern, they have an assumed right and women get the unearned disadvantage. Their lives, oblivious to society, are in a way circumscribed, limited; socially, economically, politically etc.....
hmmm, but is it really a disadvantage?
1. Men are at the top of the teeter totter because women carry all the weight and let them be up there, if it wasn't for women men wouldn't be anywhere
2. If women were to step down from the bottom space men would come flying down, so why don't we leave that space?
3. Most women enjoy the enticement tagged with being a women (I certainly do)
If we look at the "single relation of power" model analagous with the "teeter totter" (known as see saw in some countries) we see that men are at the higher end and women at the lower as a homogenous group of beings.
Like it or not, believe it or not, men do get an unearned privilege that comes from our social pattern, they have an assumed right and women get the unearned disadvantage. Their lives, oblivious to society, are in a way circumscribed, limited; socially, economically, politically etc.....
hmmm, but is it really a disadvantage?
1. Men are at the top of the teeter totter because women carry all the weight and let them be up there, if it wasn't for women men wouldn't be anywhere
2. If women were to step down from the bottom space men would come flying down, so why don't we leave that space?
3. Most women enjoy the enticement tagged with being a women (I certainly do)
posted by Desert Rose at 10:46 PM
9 Comments:
It's nice to see sisters who know their role in society.
:D
neal I will respond to you as soon as I have a little more time...
Waka: SHUSH YOU... I'm not talking about a woman's place in society, I'm talking about Power relations, the subtle advantages and disadvantages NOT ROLES
Know your role and shush up woman.
Go on and make some chai :@
*rolls eyes*
actually saira- i think, in our society atleast, men are born with an "advantage" and women have to earn it
now im not being bitter but its true..esp in places like back home-its obvious that having an extra X-chromosome places you on the bottom of the see-saw as saman said, but thats only as long as we let it be that way, women need to stand up and challenge that perception
touche
:)
well that would go against the very word "aunonymous" wudnt it?
just know that i know you...and i know that you know that i know you....
ah but i do...i also know where u live....or used to.
hehehhehehehehe
(i just gave myself away dint i?)
umm...smart me just printed out my name...:s
gosh darnit!
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