➢Some feminists claim that there aren't any innate differences between men and women, but that gender roles are purely societal constructs. Let's take this down logic road shall we?
If men and women are inherently the same, then the patriarchy is is either a social construct, or a mass conspiracy by all men.
BUT: many feminists also claim that masculine oppression of the feminine is a worldwide phenomenon that stretches through history. It'd have to be a hell of a coincidence for two completely equal sexes to have such singularly one-sided oppression occur over every single society, so it's clearly not a social construct.
Thus, the only reasonable conclusion for the consistent oppression of one gender by a gender with no innate character difference is conspiracy....
Across continents, centuries, different cultures, and language barriers, with no real proof of global collusion ever surfacing. Which is completely idiotic. This leads to one conclusion:
The patriarchy is the matrix.
And you are a battery.
➢Side note: if feminists want to claim that men and women are intrinsically the same, AND that men have systematically oppressed women, this has real world implications.
The first is this: if men and women are equal, and women outnumber men in many societies (for example, America), then we HAVE to conclude that women are co-conspirators in their own oppression on the whole.
The second, more menacing, is this: if men and women are the same, and men have systematically oppressed women, this suggests that feminists believe women have the same instinct to oppress - they just happen to be worse at it than men, historically. Which brings us back to the feminist movement as it is happening today... are they really rooting for equality?
Probably not.
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