Patriarchy: Gender and Sexual Desires

A lot of us believe that patriarchy is simply domination of female by male, a system where men impose their demands on the women who have to blindly adhere to it irrespective of their wish… But this is a clear misinterpretation our part. Patriarchy is a lot more than just that. In order to understand this we need to first understand the difference between sex and gender. For this let’s start from the very start… Men and women live together in a society. As kids they undertake the same activities, and do the same chores. Then they grow older and both of them undergo certain biological changes. A woman starts undergoing menstruation which is characterized by extreme cramps and pains, and during this time it’s painful to undertake any rigorous physical activities, while men do not undergo any such cycles. After this women undergo reproduction, which is again a very painful and cumbersome process and reduces a woman’s physical activities to a bare minimum. Due to the lack of contraception the woman had to undergo this process a large number of times, and ultimately became weak and feeble. During these times it is the man who goes out and earns money, and does all the tedious physical labor. Its due to these reasons that man becomes the bread-earner of the family, while the woman gets curtailed into the ambit of the household and starts being viewed as inferior not due to her physical in capabilities but due to the duties dumped upon her by god. Moreover, this is followed by the influx of various alien armies, coming to local towns and villages’ long periods for looting. These armies constitute only men, who in order to satiate their sexual desires and owing to their physical strength, start raping the locals. This develops a mentality that the man is physically strong, economically independent, the bread earner of the house, and he is seen as someone who is meant to take care of his women, while the woman is viewed as an entity