Unpacking Patriarchy: How Gender Violence Fuels White Supremacy from Plantations to Social Media

To understand the depth of gender violence in the Black community, it’s crucial to define terms. Conscious Lee frames patriarchy as a system in which men hold power and women are largely excluded. Imagine patriarchy as the "hardware" of the system, sexism as the "software" (the everyday prejudices that run on this system), and misogyny as the interface—how society expresses and feels this sexism.

How Social Media Fuels Gender Wars and Upholds White Supremacy: Social media fuels gender wars. Social media, from the alpha male podcast to the conversations around submission, to the critiques of the independent black women, to the various patriarchal toxic ways of talking about the high value man, to the relationship discourse as battleground and patriarchy, to all the various ways we talk about the gender wars, whether we talking about P. Diddy and Cassie, whether we talking about Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion, whether we're talking about Bill Cosby and all his victims, we talking about R. Kelly and all their victims, these are various ways of how the discourse and the value and how power we talk about leads to upholding white supremacy or white supremacy because of how we talk about GV.

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