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The world of art is full of images like these, men and women (or masculine energy and feminine energy) together. It’s just about our favorite way to think about each other. We’re not complete without each other. And we have perhaps never been so much at odds—over issues of power, control, fairness, care, freedom, rights, and future than we are now. The explosion of a toxic Manosphere after 9/11—and now entrenched in Trump’s government—portends the destruction of women’s rights, all LBGTQ+ rights (including marriage), and the sidelining of all people of color, leaving only the white males with full rights, which, it is fully expected, Trump will use to suppress those of all others.
Trump’s government is also an oligarchy of as-yet-unseen proportions, and its principal players rode the wave of Manosphere mass voting to get there.
The Patriarchy and the Manosphere is a new Substack that will explore the history of The Patriarchy — which is really young and was preceded by 300,000 years of egalitarianism! — and how it functions now and may function in the future.
It is also a call to action because the dangers here now are the same as those in Iran in 1979. After the Iranian Revolution, women lost their rights and were force-veiled. Gays in Iran get the death penalty — which Hegseth espouses on religious grounds. And from 1983 until this day, one of the principal definitions of the Iranian Islamic state is that it is a requisite patriarchy, or, as one governmental official said, “If we do not have the veil, we do not have an Islamic state.”
Join us for a powerful investigation of where we are, what we can expect, what we need to do, and how the future can be brilliant and completely new. It is about the rights of women, but also about the needs of men in this time, and how togetherwe can forge a new egalitarianism in the future.
