I am a millennial woman (or maybe a Xennial, the dates change based on the source), and I think this is mostly true of women who didn’t have a father in their household. The patriarchy BS is a much harder sell when girls have a good father figure at home. No one could have convinced me that my father wasn’t the protector and provider for our family. So if this man always has my best interests at heart, it makes no sense that all men worked in tandem to oppress women. Some assholes, absolutely. A cabal of systemic oppression, not so much.
🤝 I think you are very right. The particular woman (my wife) that prompted me to post this did have a very shitty dad.
I tend to agree with people who say that young men need a father to show them how to be a man. But they forget that young women also need a father, to show them what a man should be. Women wouldn’t procreate with losers so easily if they had a good example to look to. Some of them get lucky and marry a real man, your wife as an example. Others end up hating men bc the men they had weren’t good men and their daughters follow suit. Round and round it goes.
It’s almost as if Daddy is just as important as Mommy. The modern world seems to have forgotten that.
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