Misogyny is more than hatred for women. It's in fact hatred for vulnerability in ourselves and those we rely on.
Men have been traumatized to believe they must be strong, choose the right response fast, avoid second guessing and compassion because it asks you to think too much.
What happens if we are led to believe by an authority that's hard to dismiss, we are isolated units competing for the most of what each of us wants.
We choose entertainment about men defending the frontier, willing to kill anyone who might be a threat. To even think about social justice and peace makes us strangers to this land. We have created the warmonger hero and called him God. He is very useful. He can fix cars, save those who are drowning, narrow down the future to win or lose, strong or weak. We are choosing to destroy this planet and all its inhabitants.
Trump, Hitler, Mussolini, have been created by patriarchy. Silence the doubt, the questions like where did we go wrong? Read Hannah Arendt, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, read poets, The Talmud, the Bible, John Lennon -- be afraid but not frozen. The winner is dead.
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