THINK PAD
The patriarchy is dedicated to and obsessed with blaming women but never stops using, profiting from, and bathing in their resources. It belittles them, censors them, and oppresses them, yet it “survives” because of them.
Men sit on thrones built from women’s sacrifices, women’s intellect, and women’s strength, and still dare to call them “weaker.” They want a scapegoat, a therapist, a maid, and a muse, all in one, for the price of contempt. They use women’s backs as ladders, then complain they aren’t flat enough. What biased reasoning!
They blame women for fractured households while offering nothing but neglect and absence in return. They blame women for being “irrational, hysterical, and overly sensitive,” yet dump all their insecurities, aggression, and mental load onto them. They blame women for being “pushy” and having a “notorious drive,” yet steal their strategies, contributions, and spotlight to bolster their own reputation. They call women “a disruption and distraction” in schools, yet hire them as the public image of their brands. They say women “don’t belong in politics,” yet use the banner of feminism as their campaign slogan. They sexualize women in media, advertising, and music and then call them “immoral” for the very image men created. They tell women to dress decently, then harass them even in uniforms.
Society makes women the feast, the plate, and the table, and when the meal is done, they become the trash. It rewards a mother’s self-sacrifice for her family but punishes her self-advancement for her career. It needs women to nurture nations, but bars them from leading one. It twists every choice into a fault – too independent, too dependent, too modest, too bold. No matter what women do, patriarchy always finds a new crime to accuse them of.
So no, women are not the problem. The problem is a system built on their exhaustion, fed by their compassion, and powered by their silence. The problem is a world that takes everything women give – their time, their care, their creativity – and repays them with disrespect. The problem is a mindset that sees women’s strength as a threat instead of a force to admire. The problem is the normalization of imbalance, where men’s comfort is prioritized over women’s survival, and where women are blamed for the very oppression designed to crush them.