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Equity and Justice — (Part II)

George Marx
4 min readAug 10, 2023

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(NOTE: Part I — is at: https://medium.com/@marxgeo/equity-and-justice-is-it-primarily-class-part-i-a4ddaf3344c9, Part III — is at: https://medium.com/@marxgeo/is-race-most-important-part-iii-5d90a1ca5b5f, Part IV (the conclusion) — is at: https://medium.com/@marxgeo/racism-and-race-are-the-primary-answer-part-iv-b76dabc9155b )

Tubbs said part of her motivation was that while all three men wrote and spoke about their mothers’ influence on their activism, scholars have largely ignored examining the women’s lives and contributions in favor of the men’s fathers’ — an omission that Tubbs sees as a product of patriarchy. —

NBC News, 30 Mar. 2021

What follows is a nuanced story about confidence, stardom, love, the patriarchy, and the pitfalls of fame that even the most experienced artists face.

— Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2020

Because the patriarchy is set up to suffocate its girls and women, our gills and tails are a given.

— Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023

In a letter to the editor of the New York Review of Books, where the piece first appeared in 1975, Rich faulted Sontag for neglecting to emphasize the connection between fascism and patriarchy. —

Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 25 May 2023

As white women, we’ve been told by the patriarchy to sit and look pretty, to be silent and complicit. —

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