A Kinder, Gentler Facebook Meme?

Yvonne Owens, PhD
1 min readSep 20, 2020

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A day of good, kind Facebook memes? Is this one even feasible?

I personally think the bad old patriarchy needs to be smashed, reduced to smithereens — the kind of smashing availed by vigorous Human Rights legislation and rigorous feminist critique, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg used to deliver at the highest levels — as 4,000 + years of the “open, clear, and gentle space” hasn’t had even one iota of the desired result.

In fact, and in 20/20 hindsight, it seems apparent that providing endless “open, clear, and gentle space” is, and has been, merely enabling and counterproductive, availing no clear benefit for any sex or gender.

Rather, such an approach seems tantamount to indulging, even facilitating, a violent psychopath, narcissist or sociopath in their depredations, in that aggressive patriarchy is fundamentally a sociopathic, even psychopathic ideology/theology.

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Yvonne Owens, PhD
Yvonne Owens, PhD

Written by Yvonne Owens, PhD

I'm a writer/researcher/arts educator on Vancouver Island and all round global citizen who loves humans even though we're such a phenomenal pain-in-the-ass.

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