To use W.B. Yeats’ words, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, things have fallen apart in the men’s kingdom and now the centre cannot hold.But this is not entirely new. This reality has been coming for a long time. In traditional African societies, women were masters of subverting patriarchy in subtle ways that left men feeling powerful while in actual fact, it was women who had the power. As a strategy, women socialised boys to forever remain dependent on women.Esther explores this strategy in her nasty, but informative book The Manipulated Man. The question is, have women accomplished a coup d’état that has redefined our society forever?
9 сен 2024