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	<title>Comments on: An alum asks: is Princeton overrun by ladies?</title>
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		<title>By: Emily Sullivan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Sullivan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 01:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apaf-1,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&#039;t understand how your comment is relevant to this post.  Care to explain?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apaf-1,</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand how your comment is relevant to this post.  Care to explain?</p>
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		<title>By: Apaf-1</title>
		<link>http://equalwrites.org/2009/05/15/an-alum-asks-is-princeton-overrun-by-ladies/#comment-732</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Apaf-1]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard women involved in male politics say about our political system almost the same words I have heard battered women use about their abusers: ‘Of course our government isn’t perfect, but where is there a better one? With all its faults, it is still the best system (husband) in the world.’ Like a battered wife, they never think to ask the really relevant questions: who said we needed a husband, or a husband-state, at all?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more on the ominous parallels between patriarchy and statism, see Roderick Long and Charles Johnson&#039;s essay on libertarian feminism. They make a similar analogy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Just as, under patriarchy, forced sex is not recognized as real or fully serious rape unless the perpetrator is a stranger rather than one’s husband or boyfriend, so, under statism, governmental coercion is not recognized as real or fully serious tyranny unless it happens under a non-democratic government, a “dictatorship.” The marriage vow, as a rape license, has its parallel in the electoral ballot, as a tyranny license. Those who seek to withhold consent from their country’s governmental apparatus altogether get asked the same question that battered women get asked: “If you don’t like it, why don’t you leave?” — the man’s rightful jurisdiction over the home, and the state’s over the country, being taken for granted. It’s always the woman, not the abusive man, who needs to vacate the home (to go where?); it’s likewise the citizen, not the abusive state, that needs to vacate the territory (to go where?).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have heard women involved in male politics say about our political system almost the same words I have heard battered women use about their abusers: ‘Of course our government isn’t perfect, but where is there a better one? With all its faults, it is still the best system (husband) in the world.’ Like a battered wife, they never think to ask the really relevant questions: who said we needed a husband, or a husband-state, at all?</p>
<p>For more on the ominous parallels between patriarchy and statism, see Roderick Long and Charles Johnson&#8217;s essay on libertarian feminism. They make a similar analogy:</p>
<p>    Just as, under patriarchy, forced sex is not recognized as real or fully serious rape unless the perpetrator is a stranger rather than one’s husband or boyfriend, so, under statism, governmental coercion is not recognized as real or fully serious tyranny unless it happens under a non-democratic government, a “dictatorship.” The marriage vow, as a rape license, has its parallel in the electoral ballot, as a tyranny license. Those who seek to withhold consent from their country’s governmental apparatus altogether get asked the same question that battered women get asked: “If you don’t like it, why don’t you leave?” — the man’s rightful jurisdiction over the home, and the state’s over the country, being taken for granted. It’s always the woman, not the abusive man, who needs to vacate the home (to go where?); it’s likewise the citizen, not the abusive state, that needs to vacate the territory (to go where?).</p>
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