Ravings of a Madwoman

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   Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

   What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

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   Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)

   How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?

   (via shannonnagig)

   my father (European by birth) said this to me hundreds of times.

   (via jewelweed)

   Both my parents told me this.

   (via feministhistorian)

   (Source: solitaryforager, via feministsbakecupcakestoo)

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    I disagree that this is patriarchal vs. matriarchal, though. I think this is entitled jackass approach vs. non-lazy...

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