A truly jarring realization is that the root of patriarchy is the jar, the symbol of woman's submission to man, in that she has to go to ask him to open it. The jar is the birthplace of such dominance, which is why anyone genuinely interested in feminism should think about how to seize the means of jar productions, so as to emancipate woman's ability to open stuff for herself.
An example of an old worldview which sustained woman's state of oppression is the hermetic worldview. “Hermetic” means, as everyone knows, ‘airtight’, and refers to the belief that all aspects of society, no matter how trivial, should be locked airtight such that women would be utterly reliant on a man to open it, almost as if they had to live in a jarring world, a world full of jars.
Needless to say that such archaic beliefs have long be foregone, but there is still much work to be done to free women all around the world from their metaphorical jail. Or rather from their jar.
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2024-10-27