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Patriarchy has everything to do with men, but at the same time, nothing at all

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A Woman Who Left Society to Live With Bears Weighs in on “Man or Bear”

Patriarchy has everything to do with men, but at the same time, nothing at all. In a male-centered society where maleness is associated with power, what’s really being centered is power itself. What’s suppressed is mutual relationality. Patriarchy is intertwined with colonialism, racism, and other oppressive social structures based on hierarchy. It is a fundamental fracturing of our human wholeness.

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