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Posted inEquality, Gender violence, General, Health, Media, News/Politics

Why women suffer in our society

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 5 September 2019

I have written about the position of women in our patriarchal society from various perspectives on this site several times before – in the context of guns and violence against them, on a fundamental level on the link between patriarchy, writing and images, on why one should respect women for their extraordinary qualities, and on […]

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Guns, patriarchy and violence against women

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 9 March 201318 March 2013

In Ridley Scott’s (for a male director) astonishingly feminist film, Thelma and Louise (1991), there is a scene-sequence that graphically captures the indissoluble connection between patriarchal men and guns. And, at the same time, it shows how much the vaunted power of patriarchal men depends on their guns. The scene-sequence commences at that point in […]

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