Thought-provoking article, Aza. And I've got to say the issue of a woman advising against a course of action, her advice being ignored and then she's supposed to come to the rescue and clean up the results seems universal. Thank you for this one.
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As the great philosopher and theologian Mary Daly's research showed in her ground-breaking book called, Gyn/Ecology, all the patriarchal societies are grounded in the demonisation of females - they just use slightly different justifications.
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How many times are women asked to clean up their male bosses’ egoic mismanagement when they wouldn’t listen to us? I’ve lived through extreme examples of this. Women don’t discard men’s opinions with the same tenacity as men discard women’s opinions.
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