"You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman": we are the patriarchy
The patriarchy has won. The patriarchy has done its job, and now it is we who take over; women, with little men in their heads. The patriarchy has been so successful that it no longer needs external surveillance, because we have internalized that shit so deep we are the patriarchy; the patriarchy exists inside every single one of us. Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own...
