Posted: Apr 08, 2020 8:37 am
I watched a documentary last night about a British young lady who went to fight with the Kurds against ISIS (Daesh) in Syria. She died there in a Turkish air strike. It seems she loathed Islam, and organised religion in general, because of its patriarchal structures. I'm not saying for a moment that Islam isn't often extremely patriarchal, but is the patriarchy extant to a seriously problematic real degree in, say, the UK?
Some women I've met seem to equate patriarchy with "male leaders/managers" full stop, but surely male leaders are not necessarily a bad thing? Perhaps there are more male leaders largely because males tend to be more inclined to seek leadership and/or are simply generally better at it, as with chess and drum and bass producer professionals?
I know this may be a controversial topic and I hope nobody takes this as me being sexist, it was just a very profound and moving documentary which has me thinking.
Some women I've met seem to equate patriarchy with "male leaders/managers" full stop, but surely male leaders are not necessarily a bad thing? Perhaps there are more male leaders largely because males tend to be more inclined to seek leadership and/or are simply generally better at it, as with chess and drum and bass producer professionals?
I know this may be a controversial topic and I hope nobody takes this as me being sexist, it was just a very profound and moving documentary which has me thinking.