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What was the question? If life gives you a spoon,

Mkay. Taking part in a mindful conversation is pretty futile once people start randomly lobbing ouija boards around. Have fun guys.

Yeah. Maybe that's the problem. Because I think the occult is normal.

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” ~ J.K. Rowling

What would be a better - and equally accurate - word to use?

Click the link I posted, muir. It is a description of Patriarchy from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, which was first published in 1968 and contains seventeen volumes and thousands of entries written by scholars around the world. So, not just my opinion of what the...

To clarify, I'm using the word "patriarchy" not as an insult to males or as a male vs female thing. I'm using it as the descriptor of a system that is in place throughout the world, and has been in place for a very, very long time. The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences states...

Definitely not anti-male here. Unfortunately, patriarchal belief systems repress males and females equally in the ways you pointed out. I believe the only counterbalance to that problem is to defy culturally entrenched gender stereotyping by raising our children as individuals free to express...

If only. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/global-population-science-growth-study-wars-disaster-disease

Dood. Srsly? We don't have capitalism at the moment? Except globally. http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_45/b3706001.htm "if you think those weilding the power give a fuck about men then you're dead wrong". So who is wielding the power? Women? Aliens? Kittens? Why would female space kittens...

Also, unless I missed it (which is possible, as my eyes have glazed over several times in the reading of this conversation) - how does the father of the child factor into the conversation? Why no mention of dad?

Yes. Suggesting that society's bias against motherhood is more a case of capitalism, the natural partner of patriarchy.

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