Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’
What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.
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Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)
I disagree that this is patriarchal vs. matriarchal, though. I think this is entitled jackass approach vs. non-lazy ethical approach.
(Source: socialuprooting, via swanblood)
