* understand patriarchy

reading Judith Butler's Gender Trouble..

For Simone de Beauvoir...women are the 'other'..for Freud, women are en who like something (ya, the oppressive phallus)...for Irigaray women are underrepresented in language...thus, how do we conceive of them...(still reading what Foucault says)...

but this is what ishaa says...men are the other...they lack one thing that women posses...they lack the most important thing for society...they cant perpetuate society!!! (visibly they cant...what you gonna do about it??)

thus, men created patriarchy....they were insecure (and still are) and wanted to make all people believe that they have something vital for society (im still wondering what that is!!)..only women have what society wants...

men realized this lack...they can never play the most important role in society...then society will treat them like shit (which we need to now)..so they 1) created cultural domains for themselves...(expressed though univocal systems of language, rituals, exchange...) and 2) undervalued the most important contributions of women...

then...to save themselves from this Freudian guilt...they created the archetype of 'mother'...at least you cant dispute over the mother's role...

thus, men are the lack...men are the other....