Okay, so I didn’t want to do this.
You’ve probably come here with some expectations of a well-thought-out philosophical piece. Perish the idea immediately. Some of my older mutuals would remember when I was called a pseudo-intellectual on X (formerly twitter, referred to as twitter from henceforth), the criticism holds value still.
With your expectations lowered, let’s get right into it.
I remember the first time I encountered the word “patriarchy” in the context of online feminism — I had a visceral urge to dismiss and purge the tweet from existence. As a young religious conservative, I had been warned about bitter middle-aged women who sought to subvert God Almighty’s will and order.
God was clear about his position: men were the head and women served men. I mean it was pretty obvious from my cherry-picked reading of the word, my pastor’s sermons and all the men and women in my life telling me so.
My perceived obstinacy of feminists was met with my own pigheadedness, strengthened by my then champions: Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson. There was a gender-war going on, and my conscription for masculinity was completed.
High off knowledge I gleaned from barely skimming through Rollo Tomassi’s Rational Male, I was emboldened to perform actions the feminists would term toxic masculinity. It was a badge of honour and in fact not being called one could lead to suspicions of being a SIMP.
The horror! Imagine being a simp? A woman criticizing your character simply meant she respected you as a man, and this would trigger parts of her brain that would lead her to you? Look don’t rely on my fuzzy memory of that book. All you need to know was that it was my bible at a point.
By my mid-twenties I had moved from religious conservatism to secular conservatism. I was still triggered by buzzwords such as feminist, woke, patriarchy, systemic-injustices…anything that looked like an attack on my masculinity was met with vitriol.
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I am lazy writer so I am going to skip my character development arch and just tell you that I now lean more towards the left than the other side.
So, how is cunnilingus linked to a reversal of an oppressive patriarchal state?
You see, patriarchy is like capitalism, it lures you with the promises of its absolute state being an individualistic utopia while reality gnaws at whatever sensibilities you have to spare. At the risk of oversimplifying; As a man, you’re drawn by the prospect of having power over subservient women.
I can already hear many of groaning and saying that’s not what patriarchy is, that I have straw manned an entire ideological system. To you, I say boohoo. Go read a book, or ChatGPT as you most likely will. Patriarchy is men on top, women underneath, full stop.
Now here’s the kicker, the thing about power is that not everyone can have it. Power comes from resources, information and influence — and not all men are created equal in its eyes.
Patriarchy creates a system where all men think they can attain the requisite power to benefit, and women expect all men to provide same. You may not want to hear this, but hey, just google hypergamy.
You will NOT achieve that power, and you will suffer from the existence of the system. Yes, you just completed University and your girlfriend is expecting you to take care of her. You may think its absurd, but you must understand that she’s only being subservient and dependent you O powerful one, just like she’s expected to.
Enough about my half-baked criticism of Patriarchy, more about cunnilingus. In a modern world where women are getting access to the resources that they were historically deprived of, it has never made more sense for both genders to assume a symbiotic relationship.
Why box yourself in useless ideological positions and predetermined gender-roles?
So tonight, instead of letting traditions of the ancient tear genders apart, part a woman’s legs and serve her (consensually ofc) — it’s not simping.
