It’s like those who are in a position of oppression, but do not understand it, have something missing inside. It is the sense of an organic, subjective relation to other human beings. Instead of this inside, the oppressor has the conditioned tendency to treat other people (considered to be below him) as mere objects to be used and abused....[read it all]
This combined with the shooting at Virginia Tech today to prompt a question on my part:
Is sociopathy the ultimate manifestation of patriarchy? Its apotheosis, or platonic ideal, so to speak?
A related question to ask might be: why are so many serial killers white men?
[Note, I am not suggesting that the Asian man who committed these murders at Va. Tech is a serial killer. Merely the pondering of violent crime, the hypervigilance so many women have to live under thanks to the patriarchy, and these events at Va. Tech, led to this question.]
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