ah, except i am a survivor of patriarchy!

While i can see what you mean, here, i see it differently. i think that's because you may not have been exposed to thought as i have. Perhaps you have been reading only media like "The New American" so you get a certain slant. Perhaps you see yourself as a survivor of matriarchy? What i wish to point out is that many women ADOPT PATRIARCHY in order to survive in "A Man's Violent World". People like Margaret Thatcher or the English Queen. Or in the u.s.a., people like Janet Reno. They suppress their feminine intuition and rigidly join the patriarchs so that they/women may finally gain equality. "Alien values are implanted into the lives of the people, precisely through the children; alien, not merely in the sense of foreign or exotic, but alien to humanity: a commerciogenic identity is formed. At first it was partly resisted, but with time, it became more and more acceptable, until it has now become a major determinant on the lives of the young, displacing all earlier forms of acculturation, other ways of answering need, other ways of being in the world. This process of forgetting, beyond recall, but perhaps not quite beyond reclamation, is a form of colonialism far more effective than that which held so much of the world in thrall in an earlier empire." ----Jeremy Seabrook in 'The Metamorphoses of Colonialsm'