I posted a joke about Stockholm Syndrome a few days ago, and boy is there a weird story behind that term. And by weird, I mean "horrifying enough that you know it's real."
Yeah, I wouldn't trust the secondary source there.
I actually cannot believe this origin story for "Stockholm Syndrome" which is basically just a "myth invented to discredit women victims of violence by a psychiatrist with an obvious conflict of interest, whose first instinct was to silence the woman questioning his authority"
Well maybe, but I'd want more sources for that than a single pop psychology book which has a clear ideological axe to grind. When everything including air conditioners is a misogynist conspiracy, then the bar is low for claiming extra conspiracies.
Things that make life really comfortable (such as air conditioning) are sexist, because they don't make women comfortable
enough, or they happen to make men slightly more comfortable.
EDIT: Also: having equal amounts of things for men and women is sexism if women want more:
https://time.com/3653871/womens-bathroom-lines-sexist-potty-parity/After counting the women, I tweeted, “Dear @britishmuseum there are FIFTY women and girls standing in line for the loo while the men’s room has zero line #everydaysexism.”
Legislation to address the design and provision of public restrooms in new construction often requires more space for women’s rooms. But that has hardly made a dent in many of our oldest and most used public spaces. This is especially true in powerful institutions, such as schools and government complexes, where old buildings, and their gendered legacies, dominate.
I hardly see how it's a "gendered legacy" if they made the assumption that
men and women were the same. The system has only improved
now that we have a gendered system. Imagine if you'd mad the suggestion that women take longer in the bathroom so they need more stalls back in the gender-neutral 1970s. You'd have been lynched for suggesting any gender difference.
EDIT: i just googled a thing entirely at random: seatbelts, and yes,
they're part of the partriarchal conspiracy too. I think it's at the stage where you can just google any noun and they're all part of the patriarchal conspiracy. Probably any verb or adjective too.
Cheese: totally sexist
https://www.peta.org/living/food/why-cheese-is-the-most-sexist-thing-you-can-eat/
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