1. 20:00 24th Jan 2012

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    Reblogged from agirlcalledchris

    Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

    What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

    — 

    Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)

    How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?

    (via shannonnagig)

    i still hear it.

    (via so-treu)

    (Source: solitaryforager)

     
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      I disagree that this is patriarchal vs. matriarchal, though. I think this is entitled jackass approach vs. non-lazy...
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