Men Controlling Women

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Men controlling women, stopping them from going out, wondering, and in restricting how many friends they can have. So it's a system of control that is not just like social, on that big, governmental scale, but like in the household as well. Some women are so cloistered, so secluded, that they just don't have those friendships. And so that makes it very difficult for women to amass knowledge. But as you saidth there also is no patriarchal utopia, right? There are perhaps maybe a couple, if you're a patriarchist, a couple patriarchal utopiasrht, where men are in total control u of everything, top to bottom. And we

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