"Patriarchy is a political- social system that insists that male are inherently dominating, superior to everything and everyone deemed weak, especially females, and endowed with the right to dominate and rule over the weak and to maintain that dominance through various forms of psychological terrorism and violence"
“As their daughter I was taught that it was my role to serve, to be weak to be free from the burden of thinking, to caretake and nurture others.”
Bell hooks The Oppositional Gaze
"The movements the attitude the glances of the Other fixed me there in the sense in which a chemical solution is fixed by a dye"
"When most black people in the United States first had the opportunity to look at the film and television they did so fully aware that mass media was a system of knowledge and power reproducing and maintaining white supremacy"
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