Silly Patriarchy!
She does not know about it at all.
She's been raised away from that sort of influence.
Silly Patriarchy!
She does not know about it at all.
She's been raised away from that sort of influence.
"Is Male Dominance in our DNA?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QkPuvRc83gg&si=KBET8feMHdvn2HzI
Cue Bjork?
"björk : hunter (HD)"
"Cold Comfort Farm, Flora Poste, Jane Austen and Persuasion"
https://janeaustensworld.com/2011/12/19/cold-comfort-farm-flora-post-jane-austen-and-persuasion/
"Kate Beckinsale talks 'machine' built to 'destroy' women who speak out in Hollywood"
"Why I'd like to be…Kate Beckinsale in Cold Comfort Farm"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/jul/16/kate-beckinsale-cold-comfort-farm-role-model
"Kate Beckinsale Once Had to Do Photo Shoot While Bleeding After Miscarriage"
https://people.com/kate-beckinsale-had-to-do-photo-shoot-while-bleeding-after-miscarriage-8767442
"Sir Pouncealot Recommends..."
@eddieszoomies
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYcwLn8L/
"'Little Girls' performed by Carol Burnett in 'Annie'"
~ Sam Arnold
Ms. & Mrz. Anna Ellasdaughter
"Is Our Naming System... Patriarchal?"
~ Breaking Down Patriarchy
What does this mom need?
"They are against EMPATHY"
~ Walter Masterson
I just feel like you would treat girls and women better automatically if you'd had a happier childhood, but I also feel like it's not an excuse not to treat them better, SO!
"As a way to celebrate my fortunate genetics, I've made sure to train young children to be completely careless about their own human rights, as well as the human rights of others, because that's what the patriarchy still wants us to do. We were trained to act that way to be among those who are the most accepted into our special cult and family dynamics."
"Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-girls.html
On top of everything else, over the holidays, some said that when it comes time to donate to charity at Christmas, teenage girls are the well-off people's least favorite group to donate gifts to, for some reason.
"wife swap, supernanny & how we discriminate against children"
~ thought bug
"How Racism Fuels Religious Opposition..."
~ Now This Impact
Maybe it'd be easier for more people to act like they care about human rights for all the daughters if those people had gone to different kinds of churches?
Patriarchal culture tricked so many into going along with old patterns of discriminating against certain kinds of girls and women, or devaluing them by acting like this type of girl or woman was more valuable to the Patriarchal Culture than that type.
Beastie Boys - "So What'Cha Want"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ru3gH27Fn6E&si=uUw0f8Yxc4khBm4g
I've enjoyed this song many a time, but I realize I am also living through an era which tells me that a bunch of dads were basically trained by the Patriarchy to act like human rights for their daughters are a big fat joke. Some of you all have not improved much since high school.
It's not my job to make overprivileged, ignorant rich dads feel better about being indulged and overly controlling and constantly making life worse for the underclasses all the time. Those guys are not my bosses. I am not their assistant. They act like 12-year-old boys, and I mean that's actually a very poor description, because there are a lot of 12-year-old boys who are much better to deal with than they are. It doesn't matter if a bunch of rich women suck up to them for their careers. Those women are selfish and immature and horrible to most girls and women when it suits them, which is most of the time, apparently, for some of them.
I start to wonder if some famous guys are the world's biggest energy vampires, maybe I should watch "What We Do In The Shadows" and laugh about it.
I also hope Megyn Kelly's daughter or her friends never accidentally get into the wrong situation because she'll probably just blame the girls for whatever happened.
She probably should get some therapy for her own experiences, but has she?
It must be SUCH a trip to live in a Privileged or Poor Village Dad Bubble, where you never seem to need to feel anything like annoyed or intent on repairing yourself or like if you don't watch out you're gonna get unalived, when it comes to these kinds of things!
"Texas Lawmakers Push for More Exceptions to Strict Abortion Ban"
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-exceptions-deaths
I feel like poorer people who were duped by the unethical one and convinced he would do the most good for them will have lots of opportunities to grow and change as well.
I feel like a bunch of rich, narcissistic people got the president who actually matched their values even if they didn't vote for him.
"Megyn Kelly Blames Women For Pete Hegseth Scandal"
~ The Young Turks
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pX7Kmzcv_MU&si=YG5SoYlrkaEYzAAk
She probably just feels the need to fall in line with a lot of other very careless and shallow people. But I wonder if, when you go too far into settling for a shallow lifestyle, you get frozen in something that's like a cube of shallowness, and all you can do is try to keep yourself alive in that cube, and that's why you have to discriminate against people so much, just you can stay fixed in your cube of shallow lifestyle choices.
"Opinion: Who is Megyn Kelly? Why her Trump endorsement is so bizarre"
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2024/11/05/who-is-megyn-kelly/76067262007/
Soon Trump will be bringing more of his corrupt showbusiness style of ethics into the government arena because the people needed so badly to be entertained to forget their problems? Something like that.
It's been so hard for certain kinds of wives (and moms? and grandmas?) to not act like certain kinds of daughters are so much "less than" other kinds of people because that's exactly what they signed up for when they got married to the person they got married to.
A guy who is probably a grandpa and therefore also a dad made a joke about the driver of our car and then said in surprise "Oh! It's a man driving!"
TEACH!
"Do Women Have Equal Rights in the U.S. Constitution?"
~ Breaking Down Patriarchy
"Cloud Motion"
~ Steve Roach
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5vOjE9CPnBA&si=TA4jbpeszRaI-YXc
I can almost see the puff of demolition clouds.
"Historic Sears Building..."
They're going to tear down the place where we got our vaccines.
"Sears on Arlington"
https://www.reddit.com/r/InlandEmpire/s/xbI3HyHZL6
Make way for history!
Oh well, it's nice to have a little bit of it now and then.
"25 Goofy and Floofy Cat Memes to Prep You for the first Cat Child Caturday of the New Year"
Gun-owning, Trump-voting, Insensitive America.
Yesterday and today.
People who play their obnoxious music too loudly while waiting in a line.
Bring headphones next time, eh?
I remember learning about how she would cry and cry and cry, and it would get so annoying to the people around her... But there's also this part of me that's like, concerned and hopes she got help...What was her life actually like? Is she going to have a movie?
"Everyone loves Jesus, but Margery Kempe really, really loved Jesus"
https://www.reddit.com/r/RebelChristianity/s/hCZVIho7v9
"Despayr in Margery Kempe and Rosenwein" – Emily A. Price
"Margery Kempe: The Self-Made Mystic"
https://feminismandreligion.com/2020/12/11/margery-kempe-the-self-made-mystic/
A society that was more skilled about talking about grief and death could be more skilled about talking about all kinds of other topics, too, and all kinds of other people...
Are they pointing out that there are many comments about death on this one? Just noticing that. Well, it's interesting, huh?
Bruce Springsteen - "Hungry Heart (Official Audio)"
Sometimes I feel like I will never be able to adequately communicate the feelings of grief that have come up just because it was made known to me that some people were trained to act like abandoning X types of people was what was necessary for them to do in order for them to be able to survive their environments.
"l had this encounter recently where I met the extraordinary American poet Ruth Stone, who’s now in her 90s, but she’s been a poet her entire life and she told me that when she was growing up in rural Virginia, she would be out working in the fields, and she said she would feel and hear a poem coming at her from over the landscape.
And she said it was like a thunderous train of air. And it would come barreling down at her over the landscape. And she felt it coming, because it would shake the earth under her feet. She knew that she had only one thing to do at that point, and that was to, in her words, “run like hell.”
And she would run like hell to the house and she would be getting chased by this poem, and the whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper and a pencil fast enough so that when it thundered through her, she could collect it and grab it on the page. And other times she wouldn’t be fast enough, so she’d be running and running, and she wouldn’t get to the house and the poem would barrel through her and she would miss it and she said it would continue on across the landscape, looking, as she put it “for another poet.”
And then there were these times — this is the piece I never forgot — she said that there were moments where she would almost miss it, right? So, she’s running to the house and she’s looking for the paper and the poem passes through her, and she grabs a pencil just as it’s going through her, and then she said, it was like she would reach out with her other hand and she would catch it. She would catch the poem by its tail, and she would pull it backwards into her body as she was transcribing on the page. And in these instances, the poem would come up on the page perfect and intact but backwards, from the last word to the first."
"Your Elusive Creative Genius" by Elizabeth Gilbert
https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/your-elusive-creative-genius-by-elizabeth-gilbert
🩷
Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart (Official Audio)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=boJhWtw-6Gg&si=u56tDQO6Ja_4ARau
💖
"'Leisure' by William Henry Davies" - Your Daily Poem
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=100
😺🃏💗🤷🏽♀️🪄🌱🪃🎭✨🎶😇
It really is so tricky to try to be authentic and truthful about your experiences and take better care of your health at the same time! Or at any rate, my body's giving me a bunch of twinges now that's letting me know I need to get better at the second thing. To the task at hand...
Honestly, it probably is quite a human thing to do, to choose to believe in a certain kind of fantasy reality because people are trying to take care of themselves, right?
I wonder if getting great at forgiving others for choosing a fantasy world that I do not seem to be able to access myself would be a good thing to do for my health?
But I bought mince pies that were discounted after Christmas Day.
"Back at the mince pie competition, Shelagh wins first prize in absentia. Sister Veronica claps politely, but you can practically see her think 'Nepotism! Cheating!' while she does it, becuase Dr. Turner was one of the judges. Two ladies from the community win runner up, and Sister Veronica? She’s SEETHING. Back at Nonantus, she tries to do the thing where you say the baked good you worked on for ages isn’t that good in hopes your friends will give you a compliment. This… sort of backfires.
Sister Monica Joan: Don’t look at me to talk trash about your hard work.
Sister Veronica: Oh?
Sister Monica Joan: These are fine!
Sister Veronica: Oh. 🙁"
~ Jackie Bruleigh
"Call The Midwife holiday special 2024 recap: mince pie madness"
Why don't I remember it? Was I sleepy?
"Sometimes I wonder if everyone watches 'Call the Midwife' to witness proper healthcare. Dr. Turner makes house calls, even to slums. He tells an impoverished mother that he’ll call again next week. Which is a shock to modern ears. And then, I swear to God, the midwife says that she’ll be calling round daily. A midwife. In your house. Every. Day. Talk about fantasy television."
~ Anne Marie Hourihane
"Call The Midwife TV review: How do they keep a straight face..."
I feel like it's not happening as much as it used to, but the whole thinking about Anne Frank and her family as real people who really existed, and how in a way, she and they still seem to exist on another level, has been happening a lot at this point in time of my life.
It's so interesting when people jump to defend something without even bothering to be curious about another point of view existing.
"In this life, I really needed to fit in with Patriarchal societal norms, and that's why I have successfully surrounded myself with a lot of Patriarchal women and men who act like your point of view needs to be diminished at all costs, because they were also traumatized by the Patriarchy, but in order to survive, they felt they needed to act as though you are the type whose experiences are absolutely worthless to them, because considering that someone like you counts as a real human being is not what the Patriarchal people wanted them to do at all."
It's the most Cheshire Cat Moon I've seen ever.
"But the privilege of those truths cannot be bestowed on creatures whose rejection of the maternal bond has become a rejection of a wider unspoken, colossally unfair contract. Women with children are handed social acceptance for their vital investment in 'the future,' in exchange for unrewarded, unsupported labour that props up and stabilises the economic and social status quo. All while still suffering sneeriness about the value of their work in comparison with the serious graft of the men who win the bread.
On top of that, women have to navigate all that motherhood – or not – entails, all the deeply personal, bewildering, isolating and unacknowledged realities of both, while being subject to relentless suffocating, infantilising and violating public theories and notions that trespass on their private spaces. With that comes a sense of self-doubt and shame in making the wrong decision, or not being as content with those decisions as they are expected to be. It is a constant, prodding vivisection. That, more than anything clinical observers feel, is the truly disorienting and disturbing experience."
~ Nesrine Malik
"The right’s obsession with childless women isn’t just about ideology: it’s essential to the capitalist machine"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/02/jd-vance-childless-women-kamala-harris
"Women who don’t have children do not exist in a state of blissful detachment from their bodies and their relationship with maternity: a number have had pregnancies, miscarriages, abortions and periods. A number have entered liminal stages of motherhood that don’t conform to the single definition from which they are excluded. A number extend mothering to various children in their lives. Some, like Harris herself, have stepchildren (who don’t count, just as May’s nieces and nephews didn’t). A number have become mothers, just not in a way that initiates them into a blissful club. They experience regret, depression and navigate unsettlement that does not conform to the image of uncomplicated validation of your purpose in life."
"Behind all this lies some classic old-school inability to conceive of women outside mothering."
~ Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/02/jd-vance-childless-women-kamala-harris
"To put it mildly, these are material considerations to be taken into account upon entering a state from which there is no return. Assuming motherhood happens without such context, Charman tells me, is a 'useful fantasy.'"
~ Nesrine Malik"A mother is an option, a floating worker, the joker in the pack. Not mothering creates a hole for that 'free' service, which societies increasingly arranged around nuclear families and poorly subsidised rights depend on. The lack of parental leave, childcare and elderly care would become profoundly visible – 'disorienting and disturbing' – if that service were removed."
~ Nesrine Malik
"The right’s obsession with childless women isn’t just about ideology: it’s essential to the capitalist machine"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/02/jd-vance-childless-women-kamala-harris
"Behind all this lies some classic old-school inability to conceive of women outside mothering."
~ Nesrine Malik
"The right’s obsession with childless women isn’t just about ideology: it’s essential to the capitalist machine"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/02/jd-vance-childless-women-kamala-harris
However, here's what we're doing now. We're reading
"The right’s obsession with childless women isn’t just about ideology: it’s essential to the capitalist machine"
~ Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/02/jd-vance-childless-women-kamala-harris
Anyways, that's a real problem!
Meanwhile, it is so annoying to me that this sounds like a fantasy that hasn't actually happened yet
"I talked to so many women, for example, who were joining companies or corporate boards where they were the first women. They talked about how hard it was to be the first woman. Then, as other women joined, there was suddenly a moment when it just wasn’t an issue anymore."
"Malcolm Gladwell on Finding Meaning in Your Life Experiences"
https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/malcolm-gladwell-on-finding-meaning-in-your-life-experiences/
And then I'm like, but what if it has happened somewhere? I would like to know where.
What if out of 100 companies, that has happened at least one company, somewhere? Shouldn't we all be inspired by that?
Meanwhile, as another brilliant career move,
Conan makes out with his own face.
"Stay til the end to watch..."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEYSQEVzGJv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Do daughters always have an obligation to pay attention to the things their dads don't want to look at?
I know there are dads in the world who do not seem to want to care about how it's actually 100 percent impossible for most daughters to ever experience the world as they're experiencing it.
But why can't I live my own life feeling just as entitled to be just as careless?
Apparently, I can't. And I can't even be just be poor and simple and fine and with not interfacing anymore with the "trained by their society to be clueless about so much cad dads" ever again.
But why not?
"Rise to the highest you know: An interview with Dorothy McLean"
https://www.findhorn.org/blog/rise-to-the-highest-you-know-an-interview-with-dorothy-maclean
From issue number six of their magazine. The one that I found in the store was issue number five.
"TMJ Cranial Nerve Sound Bath **Stop Jaw Clenching"
~ Healing Vibrations
Did she say "welcome to a regular day of school in America" at minute two?
"We are SO CLOSE to Class Consciousness"
~ Happy Pancake
A "Call the Midwife" episode can be traumatic.
"Doctors who give advice without knowing the exact cause..."
"Phin's dad here..."
~ orangeisthenewblackandtan
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_r19J_JIiq/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
There's a need to focus on what is the better path or the best way to conduct a life to make for oneself.
There is a disagreement that some have about what's the best way to move forward.
Some of us may feel that when you don't look at some of the problems or suffering, it just feels too fake and too inauthentic.
It feels like there's a duty to point out that these things are being ignored.
But then I suppose it all gets too depressing to look at a lot of times?
I think that what I want to do is look at what needs to be acknowledged, and then figure out the best way of going about healing what needs to be healed.
Everyone has to learn to make the best of whatever hand they've been dealt with. I feel like I have to pick myself up and dust myself off.
I wonder what would happen if I got rid of all the clothes that are tattered. The beggar character in the last book I read made me realize I am getting tired of clothing that looks like it could have been worn for Les Miserables.
And I have to take a lot more care with my health. I need to figure out how to ask a better way of living to surround me because vibing with a lot of the suffering of the world is...I don't know. I feel like it's part of our learning experience on Earth, to be sensitive to the suffering on this planet, but there's a real need to get better, too, healthwise.
Wow, I am going to read this!
"The Project Gutenberg eBook of Sara Crewe," by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When the 'having to give up on caring about human rights for certain types of people because as it turns out, patriarchal society made it feel more uncomfortable to do so" phenomenon repeats itself.
"An orphaned girl tends goats for her grandfather until she's sold to serve as a disabled girl's companion."
Heidi (1937)
Annie, Sara Crewe, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, that girl in The Secret Garden who was Colin's cousin, and Heidi.
Well, if you just ignore the health of SO many other kinds of girls and women, and also manage to produce the kinds of superior small human beings that the patriarchy will be delighted to lift up as a good example for all the rest to aspire to in some future lifetime, you might be on your way to finally getting a long-coveted promotion?
"In 1932, Georgia native Erskine Caldwell wrote Tobacco Road, a raw, descriptive novel that shocked the conscience of the nation about the sharecropping system in Depression-era Georgia, a place he later described as somewhere people 'hungered in shacks miles deep in remote woods.' The novel’s protagonist, Jeeter Lester, becomes so desperate to feed his starving family that he offers to exchange his 12-year-old daughter’s virginity for a sack of turnips. Many sought to censor the novel at the time as vulgar and offensive, but Caldwell countered that he only wrote about 'the world as I knew it to be during that particular era for the white and Black people who lived difficult lives together in the rural South, and it told about the hard sharecropper system which was an often ignored though dominant element of Southern life.'"
~ Jim Barger, Jr.
"Jimmy Carter: Unwavering" — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024/jimmy-carter-unwavering-100
"Well, at least we all saw 'Annie,' so now we're all looking for our sugar daddies!"
"Annie (1982) Original Trailer [FHD]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I78xulb-l0s&si=kB_u5_44yxC5-n1x
"Carol Burnett Won't Take No Lip"| Annie (1982)
Did no one else get all those books about misunderstood orphan girls as the heroines when they were growing up?
"Sara Crewe!" "Anne of Green Gables!" "The Secret Garden!" "Emily of New Moon!" All right. I believe that more people probably didn't receive the last one, but I feel like a lot of people at least got exposed to those other stories, which seemed to be about instilling the values of being kind to the the outsiders and recognizing that they have things about them that are good and special too.
"Gifting our wobbly cat a handmade sunflower bed for his birthday"
~ orangeisthenewblackandtan and got.lemons
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8fawM7y0LG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"GRAPHIC: As Trump policy changes loom, nearly half of farmworkers lack legal status"
"So much depends upon..."
"The Red Wheelbarrow" | The Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow
"3 American myths I don't believe anymore after living abroad"
~ things your mom should've told you
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zfhCiFmtO8g&si=IxgUGQdSDO1gGU-X
"3 American myths I don't believe anymore after living abroad"
~ things your mom should've told you
"3 American myths I don't believe anymore after living abroad"
~ things your mom should've told you
Funny clip! But I don't know why they cut off the end of the scene.
"Room with a View Clip"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8eE7FR8q8tg&si=zfyh3D1ilbvtSxgt
Oh I just remembered something else.
Team Coco | "With so many options, how will Conan decide"
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
I don't know. But wherever he goes, he could choose to highlight the healing power of nature surrounding his lodgings, and then maybe he could be more like Conan of Green Gables.
"The Original Homes of Lucy Maud Montgomery"
https://www.anneofgreengables.com/blog-posts/the-original-homes-of-lucy-maud-montgomery
"People were never right in saying I was ‘Anne,’ she told a fellow writer, Ephraim Weber, in a 1921 letter, 'but, in some respects, they will be right if they write me down as Emily.' She was referring to Emily of New Moon, a later novel, the first in a series about the difficulty of making it as a young female writer.
I had come to Park Corner to walk in Montgomery’s footsteps and see the world from which she spun stories that blended fantasy and reality. Yet her fiction, synonymous with bright, idyllic settings and bubbly heroines, also had a darker side—and the picturesque beauty of Park Corner felt at odds with the sober vibe of Emily (1923), her bleakest and most serious book.
'You should go to New Moon,' Pamela Campbell said when I confessed my interest in the lesser-known Emily. The house, she said, 'is just down the road.'"
~ V. M. Braganza
The Author of 'Anne of Green Gables' Lived a Far Less Charmed Life Than Her Beloved Heroine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lm-montgomery-anne-green-gables-life-180981839/
"Most people don't grow up. It's so damn difficult..."
Maya Angelou
@femalepoetsociety
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DESY7KJCRrA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Celebrating L.M. Montgomery's 150th and the many lives of Anne Shirley"
~ Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
"Why Don’t You Write About Autism?" – Literary Mama
https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2024/01/why-dont-you-write-about-autism
"Many many summers ago..."
Aminah Nieves
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCk9AkFRSsU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
After seeing
"Native American teenagers have had a difficult time"
@Joeshort-n4w
https://youtube.com/shorts/2uHG_Xy-LWg?si=4Z9O188sHGmgM6bz
and
"You're not wrong."
~ Sara Pascoe at Hayes Film Festival
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DERxC-qqDuj/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Felt the need to address different perspectives existing.
It feels like the perspective that you "haven't been through anything before age 14" is...not true.It's more like what some adults will say as a way to make life and their society seem more orderly.
Patriarchal society still wants people to feel very insecure.
"Yes, 1923's Most Horrifying Scene Is Based On Real Life"
https://screenrant.com/1923-show-teonna-rainwater-native-american-boarding-schools/
Even the most privileged ones in the society are made to feel very insecure.
"Comedian Sara Pascoe, 43, admits she had given up..."
"I desperately wanted to be generative and be a part of the community."
~ Sara Pascoe
Seems as though Pascoe was made to feel insecure if she didn't have kids in a specific kitchen (oops weird typo! Haha) er, type of way, and this kind of story makes me feel like that old "Patriarchal Society just wants us to worship white guys' genetics at the expense of everyone else" programming is still running. Unfortunately, those programs haven't changed all that much for some people.
Perhaps her husband just didn't have the same ideas as her on being able to adopt. IVF was his idea, wasn't it?
"'I think he was worried about a space of sadness in our life, where I was very convinced that we could adopt and foster." ~ Pascoe
'It was like making a hypothetical decision based on a sadness I hadn't felt yet. The way society ties women's success to marriage and babies weighed heavily on me; I think women are complicit in reinforcing it.'" ~ Pascoe
"Comedian Sara Pascoe, 43, admits she had given up..."
Patriarchal Society still wants people to be able to be the most satisfied with being self-absorbed and insensitive to a lot different kinds of people who weren't historically valued by their society.
Patriarchal society teaches people (and parents) that being cold to others is the way to be a good role model. The best way to raise children is to train them to be just as self-absorbed and insensitive as their society wanted their parents to be. And that's fine for everyone else too, supposedly? Not really.
"Nieves explained that Teonna didn't enjoy hurting Sister Mary even if it was retribution for the nun's own cruelty, saying it 'wasn’t an action that she really desired to do, but it was one that she had to do to save herself and everyone in that room.'"
"Meanwhile, Ehles explained that Sister Mary saw herself as a protector in her own warped way as she truly believed this was the best way to help these girls, though notes that is because Sister Mary is 'full of intense ignorance and damage.'"
~ Colin McCormick and Peter Mutuc
"Yes, 1923's Most Horrifying Scene Is Based On Real Life"
https://screenrant.com/1923-show-teonna-rainwater-native-american-boarding-schools/
Honestly, this is 2025, and Patriarchal Society still wants people to do what the rich property owning white guys think they should do. It is a society that wants people to be very shallow. And in order to do that, the Patriarchal Ones must feel entitled enough to think that making people feel they're not good enough is the way to go, and that being highly insecure is what's actually "good enough" for them.