This picture sort of comments itself, but for those who simply don't get it, I shall make it easy: The picture is about how many women feel about their situation in a patriarchy. When I (re-)found it I came to think of tRump and his infatuation with someone not being either of his three wives. Actually, she was a fellow politician from another country, blond, pretty and charmingly "petite". When he complimented her, he obviously didn't see her as the politician, she was - i.e. his equal - but his wet dream of a woman. She certainly, wasn't one of those "nasty" ones who challenges his image of himself as the one who has a right to demand a certain behavior from the female sex. The above picture says it all when it comes to this attitude: You are a woman, and you are nothing but - or first and foremost - the embodiment of my needs which are centered upon certain of your body parts. This attitude is so old, and so integrated into the common male biased ideology that even some women may see it as "complimentary". That is, if they have fallen prey to this ideology which gives them the possibility of letting themselves be "complimented into oblivion: They are not, what they are, but what they have been told they are.
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