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social constructions – the core of our biased and inequitable reality, Part Two: Rape, Patriarchy, and Genocide

STEVEN M KAPLAN

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Social constructions are the framework of the established order and its myriad traditions. They are the basis of the subjective reality within which we live, and include gender, male supremacy, race, religion, disability, competition, beauty, and ethnic identity. Social constructions and traditions enable othering and oppression without even having to think. Never questioning anything ensures that the sorry current state of affairs remains unchallenged. Humans as a species have a fear of everything, are supremely insecure, and indiscriminately destructive. The first social constructions were fabricated in order to allay fears, to feel better about themselves, and to justify any wrongs committed against humans, non-human animals, and nature in general. In order to “justify” pretty much anything, they appointed themselves “masters of everything,” through the social construction of anthropocentrism, as expounded upon in Part One. Even so, to relieve their ever-present fears, at least momentarily, men/males needed to relentlessly instill fear in others. Through the killing of non-human animals (and human animals,) men/males get to feel “real macho,” but non-human animals can not cry out with human-like howling, they can not shed tears, and they can not beg, no matter how sadistically they are tortured and killed. Men/males needed utter human agony and unmitigated human fear. Nothing short of sheer terror! This, combined with the fear and hate that most men/males had (and still have) of women/females, led to the most horrendous discovery in human evolution: rape. Each rape builds on every rape ever committed, starting with the first rape. Through rape, other forms of sexual violence, and brutality, men/males maintain an intimidation-based control and oppression of women/females. This control and oppression results in male dominance/female subjugation. Male dominance/female subjugation leads to male supremacy/female subordination. Male supremacy/female subordination results in male privilege/female disempowerment. Each of these fosters the others, and vice versa, with each element feeding on the next in an endless loop, whose outcome is a patriarchal society, one in which patriarchy reigns supreme. Patriarchy is the social construction fabricated to ensure that males have the power. In a patriarchy, females are subjugated from the liberty, moral, cultural, social, educational, sexual, reproductive, legal, religious, leisure, labor, political, economic, ownership, psychological, and linguistic perspectives. It is no easy task to be a female in a patriarchal society. The absolutely unfair established order of males over females is maintained in these ways, and there never has been, there is no, and there never will be any justification for the existence this disgusting inequity. Every last aspect of patriarchy is based on social constructions, brutality, and above all, abject cowardice. Nevertheless, the established order still requires ever more power, in the fewest possible hands, so that ideally anybody that is not a part of the ingroup lives miserably or is killed off. The most ruthless and effective way to concentrate power is to obliterate Others en masse, by committing genocide. Genocide is the ultimate manifestation of othering, oppression, brutality, plundering, rape, murder, cultural erasure, and theft of land. Perpetrators of genocide “justify” their raping, enslaving, pillaging, and murder on account of their god, religion, and “empire building,” along with the dehumanization and demonization of their victims, whom they designate as “animals,” “savages.” or the like. Genocide is committed with brazen impunity, as Israel is currently proving, yet again, with the “international rules-based order” making certain that genocide, capitalism, neocolonialism, and globalization charge forward, with the concomitant destruction of anything and everything in their path. In genocide, the ultimate objective of social constructions is to deny Others peace, health, happiness, wellbeing, safety, food and water security, good medical care, quality education, a safe and healthy environment, infrastructure, comfort, living without constant fear, freedom of movement, freedom from arbitrary detention and imprisonment, freedom of expression, agency in their own lives, a secure and salubrious place to live, and so on.
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