A lot of us believe that patriarchy is simply domination of female by male, a system where men impose their demands on the women who have to blindly adhere to it irrespective of their wish… But this is a clear misinterpretation our part. Patriarchy is a lot more than just that. In order to understand this we need to first understand the difference between sex and gender. For this let’s start from the very start… Men and women live together in a society. As kids they undertake the same activities, and do the same chores.
Then they grow older and both of them undergo certain biological changes. A woman starts undergoing menstruation which is characterized by extreme cramps and pains, and during this time it’s painful to undertake any rigorous physical activities, while men do not undergo any such cycles. After this women undergo reproduction, which is again a very painful and cumbersome process and reduces a woman’s physical activities to a bare minimum. Due to the lack of contraception the woman had to undergo this process a large number of times, and ultimately became weak and feeble.
During these times it is the man who goes out and earns money, and does all the tedious physical labor. Its due to these reasons that man becomes the bread-earner of the family, while the woman gets curtailed into the ambit of the household and starts being viewed as inferior not due to her physical in capabilities but due to the duties dumped upon her by god. Moreover, this is followed by the influx of various alien armies, coming to local towns and villages’ long periods for looting.
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These armies constitute only men, who in order to satiate their sexual desires and owing to their physical strength, start raping the locals. This develops a mentality that the man is physically strong, economically independent, the bread earner of the house, and he is seen as someone who is meant to take care of his women, while the woman is viewed as an entity capable of nothing but reproduction, weak and incapable of existing independently, and a man is needed to protect her at all times.
Hence men start controlling the public sphere, while women get curtailed at home. She becomes an unproductive member of the society. This goes on from one generation to another. Female become more and more restricted to the private ambit. She becomes dependent on her man for everything. She herself stops considering herself as an independent entity as according to her protection lies in the hand of man. Overtime the woman starts being associated with her man in every aspect.
Religious texts, priests, men all start propagating the values and women completely give in to this mentality. The woman becomes a mere object who the men use to satiate their sexual desires and do all their chores, and in case of refusal, he uses his physical strength to beat up the women and get his job done. He gets used to this power, of getting his work done, and can’t stand any denials. Marxists go a step further to talk about how the capitalists class relationships are the root cause of female oppression and subordination.
Men are socialized into exploitative relationships in relation to work and they carry this socialization over into the home and their relationship to women. Overtime attributes such as weak, emotional, irrational, start getting associated with women, and strong, intelligent, non-emotional, rational with men. This entire mentality goes on from generation to generation, and keeps worsening not only because men dominate women and promote this ideology but because women give in to this domination and rationalize the ideology.
They start associating themselves with the men in their lives, and consider their existence otherwise incomplete. An ideal woman is considered a woman who can please her man in every aspect, who can nurture her child well, do all household chores well and take care of the all her husband’s needs and desires, and that death is worse than living without her man, while an ideal man is someone who is dominant, who can take care of his family, who dominates his private life, and who earns enough for his family.
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She is considered gentle, caring, nurturing, shy, soft-spoken, delicate, petite, dependent and thus feminine. On the other hand the man is considered violent, physically strong, loud, non-emotional, independent, strong, rational, and hence masculine, and by virtue of this is taken as the head of the family. This marks the very beginning of patriarchy.