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1 min readMar 7, 2024

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False. As women our identities are always dichotomous or more. Look at the archetypes.

Maid Mother Crone.

Madonna/Whore.

Leah/Rachel.

I grant you, that last one isn't really recognized as such but it's there and the Biblical Leah/Rachel dynamic most closely explains it. Leah was talented and proficient in her skills.l but was not respected or loved for them. Rachel was beautiful and desired and favored because of that beauty. Leah was a fuckmaid. Rachel was on a pedestal.

Women have more variation in what they can be in Patriarchy, but whatever you choose or get pushed into....you'll forever be judge harshly by both men and other women.

This is why women aren't a monolith. Because whichever role you are in deeply influences how you see things and your prospects in society.

Men on the other hand, are all "Providers & Protectors" even when they are abysmal failures or just not suited to that role. They have no other options that are accepted by society. Again, this role deeply affects how you see thibgs and your perception of success/failure affects your prospects in society. But you'll never be harshly judged the way women are, about the rightness of the role you inhabit, because there's just the one.

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