Eve Ensler pens …
“For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot.
The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy.”
“Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the progress we have made on all fronts: women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights etc.
It has birthed an authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity. It has consolidated the billionaire class who are driven by the mindset summed up in the slogan “move fast and break things.” Or, one might say, grab things, rape things.
Psychopatriarchy is found in the 120 people who own more money than half the population on earth, in the systems of oppression, surveillance and violence which become more and more sophisticated and widespread, in the few mainly white men with extreme wealth and power who are now merged with the government and own the systems of communication, AI, police or state militias like ICE.”
“The president of the US is a civilly adjudicated sex abuser and has not only flippantly dismissed allegations of sexual violence made against others in his orbit, but made it fashionable and popular attitude for the men in his delusional cult.
He has created a suffocating atmosphere of misogyny and predation. We only have to look to the manosphere, or the rape academies online where millions of men exchange best practices for drugging and raping their wives, girlfriends, sisters or deepfake pornography which is destroying thousands of women’s lives or sex robots.
Or rape islands where some of the most powerful men in the world are alleged to have raped underage girls and not one has been prosecuted. Or universities where young men allegedly gang-rape an incapacitated woman or where young women can’t put down a drink at a party without fear of being drugged, where they are blamed for being assaulted.
Psychopatriarchy is women dying preventable deaths because abortion care is denied or delayed or the introduction of extreme constitutional amendments such as North Carolina House Bill 1232, where men might be legally allowed to kill women who have abortions. This bill will hopefully not pass, but the ”
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“Opinion | We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere”
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
The Guardian
and Jane, she is a clerk
