I receive many email like this whenever I join any women's group. This is not the best offer I have received but it the one that made me cry alot. This woman does not know that I have been extremely angry for four years and defying patriarchy (culture and tradition) is the only way to deal with it. Like I said, happiness is the state of mind. Her email magnifies my happiness a zillion folds.
This is an offer I can't refuse.
 
Sophia
 
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Dear Sophia--
 
I read with great interest your email about your struggle against patriarchy.  I am part of an organization that is working in soldarity with Iraqi women's indenous struggle against patriarchal practices which are on the rise as a result of the US occupation:  practices such as religious ritual killings ("honor" killings)  and forced veiling, polygamy etc.  We work with a number of Iraqi and Iranian women who would be interested in connecting to an African woman with similiar beliefs. Your email, "Patriarchy or men?" was very concentrated. I must say that you write extremely well with alot of emotions. Your conclusion was very powerful. Very powerful!  Your conclusion is the heart of patriarchy. I have never met an African feminist and/or woman of your caliber. You are a very intelligent and very knowledgeable African woman . You are very well informed. You are indeed the nerve center of every African young girl and every woman's subconscious. I work with many feminist publishers who could make your knowledge within the reach of every young girl who would like to meet you. 
 
If you are within the US, we shall offer you a trip to NYC next month to give a 30 minute presentation specifically talking about your experience as an African girl child "brainwashed by patriarchy" and your life as an adult woman. You will also have the opportunity to meet with alot women form different parts of the world with similar beliefs.
 
On behalf of our organization, we would like to extend our offer to join ####  in the struggle against patriarchy. Please accept this offer and contact us as soon as possible. We would appreciate it very much.
 
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A woman sent me a private message. I quoted her and replied.
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Private message:

<<I very enjoy reading you. I check group messages every day just to read you. I really admire your courage to challenge men because  you speak for a lot of women. What you said about culture brainwashing girls so that ��we are easy to control, use and abuse by men because they fear our vagina and each other�s penis size�� is very true. I am an African woman who was married for two years to a man who was mentally unstable. I divorced five years ago and went back to school with a vengeance and completed my RN in 2002. I am 34 years old and six months pregnant with my second and last child through DI. My mother, who is 62 years old, said that for a young woman of your age who has never been married what you know about men is what ! will bring you happiness. She said th at there is no happiness withtout freedom. She said only American women are happy wives because they have freedom. �As you know in Africa there is culture and tradition, psychological war on wives by husbands that locks wives in this marriage �cult� where they are "sex slaves" who "labor 24hrs like horses to take care of men".>> 

Please �Anonymous�, don�t use �men� and �patriarchy� interchangeably.  Patriarchy is a culture whose mission is to retard girls� mental development by replacing our moral conviction with culture and tradition.  Patriarchy is a social system that raises girls to be so stupid. Let me use the acceptable term, raises girls to follow �culture and tradition and to submit to their husbands and accept the inhumane and degrading conditions of marriage. Patriarchy is a social system that is designed to brainwash women to believe that what is important to men, is also what is important to them. Patriarchy is a social system that brainwashes girls to believe that they are born for one reason and only one reason: Make men happy at all costs and by all means necessary. Patriarchy is cult where women are used and abused sexually, physically and psychologically. Patriarchy is anything and everything that does not retard erection and sexual pleasure for men. Patriarchy is a woman giving up her freedom in the name of marriage. Patriarchy is religion. Patriarchy is culture and tradition. Patriarchy is a social system that dominates the world. Patriarchy is the Taliban man in Afghanistan and they are in every society, race, and culture. 

With so many women around the world who are so mentally underdevelop as a result of these mechanisms of oppression, I can safely define Patriarchy as �A culture that gives men maximum rights to socially, mentally, physically and sexually control, torture, use, abuse, demoralize and immobilize and mistreat women with no limitations.  

At a very personal level, so many things about patriarchy makes me angry especially the fact that men do not condemn each other�s ruthlessness towards women to each other. This is the number one reason on my list why do not want to get married. All men believe it is their right to control and use and abuse a woman. All men believe that it is their right to own a woman. All men believe that it is their right to make a woman suffer inorder to make them happy. This is the reason men do not condemn each other�s ruthlessness towards women to each other. For a man to confront another man because of his callousness towards women or his wife would be infringing on another man�s RIGHTS. Instead, they choose to infringe on our, women�s, rights. All men are 'flipping' selfish. Period! 

<<I have not read your reason for choosing to conceive through the sperm bank.>> 

�Money does not bring happiness� is a clich� to many people. I feel like I am the only person in this world who understands its real meaning. Happiness is the state of the mind.  Four years ago, I would have been a miserable woman without a husband because I was brainwashed by patriarchy from childhood to have that belief, and that was my state of mind at the time. Today, after evil devoured my innocence, I had the opportunity and reason, to examine, with a high resolution microscope, this dominant ruthless patriarchal shit that brainwashed me from childhood. As a result, my priority has changed tremendously. All I want is a child. I am a woman. I don�t have to get married before I get pregnant because it takes only ten seconds to ejaculate. I don�t have to get married in order to guarantee t hat the product of nine months after conception is 50% my genes and I don�t need a DNA test either to prove the same. My child can arrive in the back seat of my car or in a 'bottle'; I still wouldn�t need a DNA test. Besides, I have never heard of such babies arriving in the world with ten heads. This has been my state of mind for four years.   

I am determined to prove to patriarchy (culture and tradition), and rightfully so, that what is important to a man, is not what is important to me. I am determined to prove to patriarchy that it is not a right for a man to own me; it is not a right for a man to use my body for sexual pleasure; it is not a right for a man to own my vagina; it is not a right for a man to have a child. It is not my obligation to guarantee a man that �right�. It is a man's 'flipping' privilege. Period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

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