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You’re so right, Sandra! One of the worst forms of prejudice is generalization and treating sides as if they were monolithically black n white… When we know outside any such discourse is never the case…
One of the issues (so far) with the bell hooks book is she focuses on women who make things worse by perpetuating patriarchy in their own ways… I don’t think she means to be reductionist (women may be doing all sorts of harm unrelated to patriarchy altogether, right?) but i guess it’s just the focus of the book.
There is also an Islamic notion of “qewama” where men are “responsible” for women in certain ways, and that goes with patriarchy as well, albeit a benevolent form, often used as a way to impose further controls… Will think and blog some more soon…