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This is an intensely feminine struggle, against the destruction of our eco-system, a problem created by patriachy is.
Lock her up Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Wait for it! here it comes, ready or not: he was a man far too used to the comforts of patriachy No that's not my typo.
Lock her up Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Professional language is not necessarily about “white patriachy.”
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It always amazes me how the patriachy we supposedly chattle women under somehow misses how completely biased against men family court situations generally are.
Men shouldn't have opinions about women's issues? Steven Barnes 2009
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Bill got his penis sucked because he was a powerful rich white patriachy male ...
Dating advice from assholes: "Stop treating women well" - Feministing 2008
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They used the growing opposition to Bush's energy war in Iraq as a battering ram, but in the process of making this breach will probably sacrifice the interests of women, African Americans, and immigrants to glide the winds of white xenophobia and thuggish patriachy that swirl over the post-Nixon Republican South.
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OneVoice commented at September 1, 2008 3:15 AM: "In short, if you're a heterosexual woman, most of you want not "equality" but "patriachy" in the form of monogamy, kids, hubby, money, house, etc The American Dream -- middle class or better."
Dating advice from assholes: "Stop treating women well" - Feministing 2008
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In short, if you're a heterosexual woman, most of you want not "equality" but "patriachy" in the form of monogamy, kids, hubby, money, house, etc The American Dream -- middle class or better.
Dating advice from assholes: "Stop treating women well" - Feministing 2008
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Andrea Dworkin claimed that penetration of a female by a male penis is always rape, and as such has overtones of patriachy and empire and violence.
"Sending people to prison for five or 10 or 15 years for looking at pictures is killing an ant with a sledgehammer." Ann Althouse 2007
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There are rare occasions when women who have had consensual sex bend to the patriachy will of shame to deny that consent was given.
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