Petals and Power: A Dutch Mother’s Domain This morning, I listened to a fellow columnist narrate her piece about waking up to financial vulnerability – that dreaded moment when the ceiling stares back at you while an elephant sits on your chest, mocking your economic dependence.She railed against the seeming failure of 1970s feminism, lamenting…
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The Phoenix’s Gilded Cage
The Serpent’s Own Scales: Women’s Complicated Dance with Patriarchy Oh, the delicious irony of systemic oppression—where the oppressed become unwitting architects of their own constraints! Women, those magnificent creatures simultaneously fighting and reinforcing patriarchal systems, have elevated self-contradiction to an art form. Consider the Spanish mother critiquing men with vigorous passion while mollycoddling her son’s…
Patriarchy’s Oblivious Foundations
When “No” Becomes a Movement: A Study in Systematic Rejection It’s rather telling that in both South Korea and China, women have developed such precise taxonomies of things to refuse. The 4B movement in South Korea (no dating, no sex, no marriage, no children) and China’s 6B4T (which adds no buying products targeting women and…
The C.O.M.C. Files 