[lbo-talk] From Your Friends at Foriegn Policy: Why Men Rule...and Conservatives Will Inherit the Earth

[joanna]

A nonsensical article. Patriarchy is doomed for the simple reason that 
men can no longer afford to support large families. In addition, 
neo-liberal regimes, which depend more and more on lowering the standard 
of living for workers and which love a "flexible" workforce cause 
families to unravel in the process of chasing jobs and upward mobility. 
Patriarchy is also doomed because men are more fragile, biologically and 
emotionally, than women, and the extremely toxic/stressful modern 
environment is causing them to short circuit -- more mental illness, 
more physical illness, less ability to accept any form of discipline, 
less motivation to want to support large families, etc.

Joanna

Michael Hoover wrote:


>The Return of Patriarchy
>Philip Longman
>March/April 2006
>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3376
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