What if you're not supposed to keep on "unseeing" as many kinds of kids and moms and dads and aunts and uncles and other kinds people as you were trained unsee just because you're still living in a Patriarchal Society?
And what if you were trained to "unsee" them just to cope with the skewed circumstances of living in a patriarchal society, but that's actually not really for your benefit as much as they wanted you to believe it was?
To be honest, lately I've become rather disturbed by the idea that patriarchal society has drummed into some people a tendency of going along with certain programs and patterns of male entitlement, as if that is just what they must do in order to get by in this culture.
For example, the male entitlement to pronounce certain types of women as the "good" types and other types of women as the "bad" types of women, or maybe the "more abandonable" types is not healthy. It's too controlling and it's done out of insecurity. It leads to more kinds of people and more groups of people being disenfranchised, and that's not a good thing.
I did spend a good part of my twenties and thirties being strongly affected by how trauma and violence affects girls and women. Perhaps it molded my personality and outlook quite a bit.
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