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redqueen

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7. Thanks for slogging through it.
Sun Apr 6, 2014, 07:12 PM
Apr 2014
And, for all of these women, as for any subordinate group anywhere, fascism appealed to what social scientists call “last-place aversion”: the desire to outrank other groups. Add, finally, the gendered appeal of the strong authority figure and rigid hierarchy, which attracts some women as much as some men,...


Gee, imagine that, Naomi: When oppressed groups (yes, even women!) internalize the inevitability of the hierarchical structure of the patriarchy, they naturally desire to avoid being at the bottom of the shit pile.

Seriously, how does she get paid for this?

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