Most of our (U.S.) cultural and socioeconomic norms have been instituted by coercion and manipulation and are anethema to both communal and individual thriving.

Men have no dominion nor authority over women. Not her mind, body, attitude, or behavior. Any man who overtakes a woman’s agency is engaging in violent theft and has an insidious cancer eating his soul.

Only men are permitted a sense of self and self-regard in a patriarchy. A woman’s worth, her value, is measured by her selflessness. How much of her lifeforce she cleaves from her self to give to others that they may flourish as she withers to naught but dust.

Patriarchal nuclear family structures are ones in which the wife is head servant of the household.

The story of Adam and Eve with Eve originating from Adam’s rib (which is so, so stupid) was concocted to steal the sacred glory of life-giving from women as a cultural cudgel to enforce patriarchal control.

I’m loading my cart online for a grocery store pick-up and going to my usual products that they have listed. I’m my list of frequently purchased items, they have added boxed wine. Now, I’m sober. 👇

Patriarchy in the U.S. demands that women handover their decision-making, their agency, their intuition, their glory to emotionally-stunted, inept, and unqualified men. It is bonkers.

Patriarchy is made up. It’s a convoluted, corrupt construct that is man-made. It is a failure; it is faulty. It is a choice. A tyrannical, oppressive choice. It is bogus. It is a lie. It’s the path of hell, lined with insidious doers of grave deeds. 👇

Women have unimpeachable authority over their own bodies. Anything that prevents them from exercising that authority is tyranny.

The conservative members of the Supreme Court are just The Heritage Foundation in black robes. 

Neil Howe argues in THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE: •• For the past 500-600 yrs, Anglo-American society enters a new season in a predictable 80-100 yr cycle every 20 yrs or so. (Pg. 12) 👇

Women should not have to perform submission to men to stay safe.

What we’re experiencing in the U.S. – as well as with the metastasizing authoritarianism globally – is the rendered detritus of white male resentment. The power of this group relies on the disempowerment of everyone else and we *were* overcoming that reality. 👇

First TAF post on patriarchy just dropped. “The power structure that is patriarchy is the one thing that defines all our lives, almost globally, down to the millisecond, yet, here in the U.S., you’ll only find mentions of it in spheres of highly conscious women. 👇

Women are kaleidoscopically powerful, loving, inventive, creative, wise, capable, fabulous, and sacred. Their relationship to a man is objectively the least interesting thing about them.

Reading about how most of the surges in patriarchy were due to women having power and assets and men wanted to steal them, so they enacted laws that gave them the “right” to do so. White supremacy follows the same model. Legal ≠ Just

Libertarianism is a hyper-individualistic fairy tale privileged white men tell themselves.

White supremacist patriarchy has gotten everything it ever wanted and it is still marching us toward a species-level human extinction without restraint.

The practice of marrying girls — children — to much older men leading to “paternalistic relationship” gave rise to the stereotype women were “foolish and immature” and men were “rational and wise.” —The Patriarchs

➡️ Models of power: •• DOMINATION: rule with fear of pain •• PARTNERSHIP: cooperative decision-making based on sharing of pleasure (paraphrasing) From Dr. Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice & The Blade, on the Pulling the Thread podcast.

Patriarchy, like white supremacy, is about theft and greed. It is about taking something that belongs to someone else – something that is rightfully, objectively, inarguably theirs – and stealing it. To hoard it, consume it, destroy it, to try and fill some deep, cavernous hole in a soul.

Life and people and the world look so much different as you get older. It’s like going higher and higher up a mountain and being able to see farther and farther, but really, it’s deeper and deeper.

The small character count available to post here is 🍌🍌🍌.

(In 🇺🇸) The collective “falling behind” and “loneliness” of men is the Sword of Damocles white men have created falling on their sons. I questioned the sanity of anyone who cannot see the benefit of this development. 

Pg. 27 of THE PATRIARCHS: “‘Anyone, given half a chance, will prefer equality and justice to inequality and injustice,’ writes the political theorist Anne Phillips. ‘Subservient does not, on the whole, come naturally to people.’ We generally don’t submit to power or aggression without resistance.”

In the US, children die every day as a result of the unchecked greed of powerful white men. 

Women are magnificent and that any would dim their light for male approval is an epic travesty.

The current administration and its benefactors are a raging tantrum, a thickened, boiled-down sludge of a greedy, white male supremacy which consumes and destroys all that lie before it, grabbing and defiling, giving no pause, no quarter. It is voracious, insatiable, thoughtless, witless, and mean.

The hallmark of Patriachy is extreme emotional immaturity — characterized by inhumane behavior and abject disregard for other humans and the earth community at large.

Patriarchy demands a weakened woman, a woman steeped in self-abandonment, guilted and shamed by a life of compulsory self-betrayal.

Unless they are being taxed, this Christo-fascist theocracy

Finished MEDIOCRE by @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social last week (HIGHLY recommend) and started THE PATRIARCHS. My kids’ schedules are demanding as helllllll, but my work continues. Our era demands it of us. History waits for no one.

Part of the collective hopelessness we are feeling is the loss of entitlement to a western, linear idea of progress. But the telling of the U.S., alongside the unspeakable horrors and terror, is an unbreakable insistence on bettering. 👇

There is no reason a man should be the head of a company that services a predominately female customer base.

We are at an acute inflection point in US history, world history, human history. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know when I say this is all-hands-on deck, DEFCON 5, empire-crumbling moment. There are many ways through this. 👇

I’ve been laughing for 5 hours because on page 355 of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Hariri argues the Industrial Revolution brought about “the disintegration of patriarchy.”

Wilding women pursue lifelong education and enlightenment of the power structures in their lives not just so that they may divest from and destroy their own cages but also so that they no longer participate as an oppressor themselves. 👇

🚨🚨🚨 Palantir is the five-alarm fire we are not paying enough attention to only because fascism, tyranny, unemployment, skyrocketing prices, tariffs, concentration camps and illegal kidnappings/deportations, mass layoffs targeting black women esp., genocide, among other things. 👇

To those of you who have read Women Who Run With the Wolves, I identify as the Baba Yaga in the woods who has skulls lit from inside by a flame capable of incinerating the malevolent that she can give to women who need them.

Damn I wanted to be consistent posting on here, but my oldest has been having some medical issues, so we've been playing diagnosis roulette -- what can it be?? -- and it turns out to be multiple issues, which is fun when you're 15, autistic, in MARCHING BAND AND AP WORLD HISTORY 👇

What gets lost (or is avoided) in Texas political discussion is that a massive concentration of state political power is in the evangelical and Baptist megachurches. And no one will touch it. Not even Beto.

At long last, I am reading Women Who Run With the Wolves. Damn if I could only inject every word into my veins, my cells, hell – even my telomeres though I'm not sure what those are.

As part of my deep dive into PATRIARCHY, I am reading Ijeoma Oluo's MEDIOCRE and I'm currently going through her breakdown of the Bernie Bros in the run-up to the 2016 election and omg the PTSD is visceral.

For the next month+, content from The Agentic Feminine will focus on Patriarchy. While research, analyses, diagnoses, dissertations, criticisms, and potential solutions of/to Patriarchy could fill multiple Library of Congresses, I am approaching this topic from the standpoint of Rewilding Women.

Wooohooo! The kids are finally back in school, so let's get this party started. I am Meredith, founder of The Agentic Feminine. • I create space for women to rewild through the exploration of and divestment from capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy.

The 2nd issue of Dispatches from Fallopia just dropped! I always wanted to have a newsletter that is actually a newsletter and not an emailed blog - to build a vessel for providing quality information with a personal angle to REWILDING WOMEN. Please enjoy! theagenticfeminine.com/so/27PXtZXdu...

Mopping my kitchen floor while my country freefalls into fascism is something.

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right. Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...