the women who promote patriarchy are just making mating calls
Thank you New York Times for informing me that there are some Christian women who think women shouldn't vote, and half of white women voted for Trump. Since I consciously choose to live in a liberal bubble, I really don't need to be reminded that such women exist in decent numbers, nor do I need to know about tradwife content on socials. (Yes, I really should drop the habit of casually browsing NYT when I'm bored, but what else am I gonna read? Reddit?)
Since we are at it, a strange revelation came to me. You know what these conservative women remind me of? Dudes driving around with loud, modified exhausts.
Both groups of people are loud and obnoxious. Both groups make other people's lives slightly shittier. You really don't want to acknowledge the existence of either group, as thou shalt not give attention to attention gigolos; yet they both force their ways into your consciousness against your wish.
Most importantly, sometimes you just can't shake off the feeling that both groups, the dudes with modified exhausts and women promoting patriarchy, are incredibly and loudly horny.
Being horny but not able to acknowledge it, that's what stands out to me about patriarchy promoting women. We liberals generally do not have trouble acknowledging that women are sometimes horny indeed, so we are not used to deciphering such indirect language and twisted social dances under the suppression of patriarchy.
Instead of walking up to the dudes their hearts desire and politely ask "yo, wanna bang?" like the rest of us, conservative ladies need to go around and yell at everyone like "Look at me! Look at me!! I'm so submissive that I'm willing to give up some abstract legal rights in order to impress a dude!! Pick me! Pick meeee!! Please!!!" in order to get noticed by their senpai.
You may ask, but aren't a lot of these conservative women already married?
Yeah, married women are horny too. Do I have to remind you that the Twilight saga, and like 92.7% of popular romantasy in circulation are written by Mormon wives?
So, the next time I see conservative women howling about taking away my legal rights, I have to remind myself maybe they don't really care about legality, and I don't need to get annoyed by them. They are just performing some form of intricate mating call. It's all flirtation with some real or imagined male audience in their heads.
Yes, it all seems embarrassing and somewhat undignified, but people with limited mating options still want to mate, sometimes through the apps, sometimes through modified exhausts, or politics. It's their God-given right. Let people mate. Maybe they'd calm down if they found love.