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Purge the Collaborators through Education

13 March 2008, 06:43, by JBPeebles

Fantastic article. I love your explanation of women using women in order to serve the State, or hegemon as you refer to it.

This is a great article because it makes me think about the connections between better educated women and their more vulnerable, poorer equivalents. Women do seem to be part of a social and political class that essentially propagandizes young and vulnerable minds.

So many women seem marginalized and make perfect targets for exploitation. Priests and the educated do use their positions of influence to espouse the nationalist and militarist myths. How can we bring the cycle to an end other than through changing what women do to perpetuate a system that demeans them?

Education serves a vital function: by informing women of the choices that they have, they can elevate themselves beyond service to the male dominated strata. Women can be an effective counterweight to "Big Gun Syndrome"—an euphemism for the masculine obsession with penis size. In Rwanda, a Constitutional amendment was passed requiring something like 70% of all MPs to be women (an interesting documentary on that exists somewhere.) Empowering the disenfranchised is the first step to freeing women from collaborators in their midst. We can have the hair-cutting day not long after that...