...an unexamined acceptance of the patriarchal status quo
Which, if you think about it from a slightly different angle, could itself indicate that the individual who acts on such an acceptance has "issues". Over the past few decades, there has been so much education of the public of the inherent inappropriateness (not to mention that it's just plain stupid when you look at what patriachal attitudes have accomplished on a greater scale ---imperialistic invasion, genocide and global warming, anyone?) of accepting such status quo that anyone who doesn't stop to think about it when they're putting something out into the public domain must be blocking it along with some hairy, deep-seated problems. That or trying to be a jerk to at least a portion of the planet.
Of course, I come at this with my own skewed viewpoint. I was raised in a firmly matriarchal setting and my attitude reflects it. When I was in my late twenties and early thirties and people would ask me if I was a feminist (usually in the course of trying to get me to give more of my time to feminist causes), I'd tell them that I didn't have time to be a street-marching feminist because I was busy taking care of everything that needed to be taken care of since no man was capable of doing it all. "Patriarchal status quo" is and always has been, to me, synonymous with "it's all going to get even more fucked up very soon."
More explicit sex = edgier. Hmm. How disappointingly Freudian. I once again congratulate myself on bypassing the comics in favor of re-watching episodes and reading the continuing fanfic.
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Which, if you think about it from a slightly different angle, could itself indicate that the individual who acts on such an acceptance has "issues". Over the past few decades, there has been so much education of the public of the inherent inappropriateness (not to mention that it's just plain stupid when you look at what patriachal attitudes have accomplished on a greater scale ---imperialistic invasion, genocide and global warming, anyone?) of accepting such status quo that anyone who doesn't stop to think about it when they're putting something out into the public domain must be blocking it along with some hairy, deep-seated problems. That or trying to be a jerk to at least a portion of the planet.
Of course, I come at this with my own skewed viewpoint. I was raised in a firmly matriarchal setting and my attitude reflects it. When I was in my late twenties and early thirties and people would ask me if I was a feminist (usually in the course of trying to get me to give more of my time to feminist causes), I'd tell them that I didn't have time to be a street-marching feminist because I was busy taking care of everything that needed to be taken care of since no man was capable of doing it all. "Patriarchal status quo" is and always has been, to me, synonymous with "it's all going to get even more fucked up very soon."
More explicit sex = edgier. Hmm. How disappointingly Freudian. I once again congratulate myself on bypassing the comics in favor of re-watching episodes and reading the continuing fanfic.