All traditional sites of consensus-building — public discourse, civil society, and political parties — have evolved to structurally impede dialectical cooperation
When emancipated women friends from modern urban households talk of 'entrenched patriarchy' in their lives, mine had always been a lone weak dissenting voice. Coming from a family with majority male members 'ruled' by minority women with strong personalities, I always tended to see intra-family domination as a personality issue rather than a gender issue. Your 'Feminism for polarised times' was spot on about the dangers of blurring inequities brought on by the superposition of structural and interpersonal terrain as you so aptly put it.
When emancipated women friends from modern urban households talk of 'entrenched patriarchy' in their lives, mine had always been a lone weak dissenting voice. Coming from a family with majority male members 'ruled' by minority women with strong personalities, I always tended to see intra-family domination as a personality issue rather than a gender issue. Your 'Feminism for polarised times' was spot on about the dangers of blurring inequities brought on by the superposition of structural and interpersonal terrain as you so aptly put it.