#patriarchy

#patriarchy

We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders. We need to revive a Marxist analysis in light of the new social movements. We must commit to saying what we want to see realised, and not just complain about what is going wrong.

We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism, and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealized past one that perhaps never truly existed and to reestablish hierarchical orders. This is the terrifying panorama described by Judith Butler. Butler, 69, spoke last Friday at the Reina Sofia Museum auditorium in Madrid with Joseba Elola, coordinator of EL PAIS's Ideas supplement, during a subscriber event marking the publication's 10th anniversary.

I really loved the questions that it asked about violence and protection, and what it means to be able to protect someone at the cost of violence. It also offered a lot of interesting perspectives on what it means to be a monster and what we make of monsters. So, I had a really great time taking the historically-inspired setting of this myth and integrating it with all these questions that are really interesting to me, especially [using] a fantasy lens.

"We know there's an outrageous, horrific rise in violence against women, sexual crimes and rape," she said. "Now there's the rise of incel culture and the likes of Andrew Tate pushing ideas of men's power and what they're entitled to. It's really sad that those pushing the anti-trans narrative don't realise that's exactly what they're playing into."

He enlisted a whole bunch of Ideology-patriarchy; social conservatism; utterly fake upside-down Christianity-in service of those basic motivations, not only to justify his own appetite for and personal acts of sadism and domination but to cast punishment and predation as far out into the world as he could manage. He studied psychology and the Bible so that he could borrow their authority and instrumentalize them to do widespread cruelty more effectively.

In Pakistan, the killing of TikTok star Sana Yousaf raises serious concerns about the safety of online personalities, particularly young women amid pervasive violence.

To be a father of daughters in the Taliban's Afghanistan has become a daily nightmare for Amir, who feels compelled to inflict a system of gender apartheid on his family.

Roman women faced legal and psychological barriers in their societal roles, constrained by guardianship laws and patriarchal views that characterized their capabilities and autonomy.

The Trump Administration has been implementing policies that result in the systematic erasure of women's achievements from significant public records, reinforcing patriarchal narratives.

The evolutionary journey from single-gender replication to the introduction of males suggests that 'female-first' may not be metaphorical but a biological reality.

What would writers do without problematic patriarchs? From King Lear to Logan Roy, they are the linchpins of countless family dramas: adored fathers who dominate and damage their children in equal measure.

Women want something different from their relationships with men. So different that it can only be figured as alien.