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Marsha posted an update in the group
Straddle your Feminism 11 years, 8 months ago
I am wondering has anyone here read, “The Mermaid and the Minataur” by Dorothy Dinnerstein? She is rather controversial with a basic thesis that men act threatening, women just wait them out and also encourage such testostone fed rantings preferring to defer power to men, while actually retaining power through patience. It could be summarized in the old adage, “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world”
It’s interesting but I don’t buy it because often that testosterone fueled power turns to violence (not necessarily physical) and it’s frequently directed at those weaker. The person in power isn’t abused typically.
It’s fun to think about how women are actually the power behind the thrones as it were but it’s fantasy.