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Sunday, April 21, 2019

How To Destroy Paradise In Five Easy Steps

While many of us wonder just how exactly  we got into this mess that is patriarchal dystopia, as there are a number of theories, one can also do an interesting though experiment in reverse engineering.  That is, if you had total power (and malevolence) and found a truly utopian society somewhere in this world untouched by patriarchal "civilization", how would you destroy it in the quickest way possible?

Here is how I would do it.  I would harness the destructive power of divide-and-conquer by utterly poisoning gender relations.  I would require both Women and men to attend a twisted sex ed lesson, separating the sexes so each is given their own separate, gender-specific session.  And I would teach them the following highly poisonous ideas:
  1. Sex is a commodity that men "take" from Women.  In fact, it is a type of currency.
  2. A Woman's worth is thus considered inversely proportional to her level of sexual experience, while the reverse is true for men.
  3. Women would learn that men only want one thing from them (sex), while men would learn that Women only want one thing from them (money/resources).
  4. Each gender would learn to feel utterly entitled to what the other has to offer, as per the logic of the exchange economy.
  5. And each gender would learn that the other is "dangerous" and "needs to be controlled or else they run amuck", and of course NOT to share with the other what they learned today.
And within a matter of hours, paradise will be well and truly lost, perhaps forever.

Do any of these ideas sound familiar?  They should, since this is the very "commodity model" of sexuality that is part and parcel of patriarchy.  So let's end it yesterday, full stop.