Hellooo.....
Climate change is caused by dominance hierarchy dynamics, and by patriarchal norms.
So is war
So are authoritarian leaders
So is racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, and regular old bullying
Pervasively high levels of violence, including sexual violence are all driven by Man Box norms as part of a dominance hierarchy system.
How have you known me this long and failed to grasp that?
"The folk theory of the natural order (a core aspect of patriarchal thinking) is often used to determine authority in a might makes right context. Examples of the natural order are as follows:
- God is naturally more powerful than people.
- People are naturally more powerful than animals and plants and natural objects.
- Adults are naturally more powerful than children.
- Men are naturally more powerful than women.
This legitimizes the patriarchal dominance hierarchy as being natural and therefore moral. It makes social movements like feminism appear unnatural and therefore counter to the moral order. It legitimatizes the view of nature as a resource for human use and, correspondingly, man as steward over nature. It also stimulates theories of so-called natural superiority as discussed in books like The Bell Curve, which purports connections between race and intelligence. Homosexuality also violates this natural order."
“In a patriarchal dominance hierarchy, rankings and status are often artificial, based on immutable traits like gender, race, and sexuality, or in life situations that confer inherent disadvantages right from the start, such as being born into poverty. It’s also maintained through a kind of might makes right ethos that justifies and even approves of ruthlessness in order to rise in the pecking order.
In the face of that, racial, gender, sexual, or other kinds of equality can never be achieved, because that is so deeply incompatible with the framework that our society is built on — one of violent domination of others in order to achieve power and position.”
It is very literally the most important issue because it underpins nearly all of the other ones.
Good lord, I give up... 🤷♀️
