{"id":27027,"date":"2014-07-26T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27027"},"modified":"2014-07-26T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T20:30:32","slug":"summer-one-of-the-last-cultural-strongholds-of-the-patriarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/summer-one-of-the-last-cultural-strongholds-of-the-patriarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer – one of the last cultural strongholds of the Patriarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems so innocent, but as Brian Willett<\/a> warns us, it’s the Patriarchy and we’re soaking in it:<\/p>\n

Take baseball and fireworks. A symbol of phallic expression and a symbol of phallic completion. Ever wonder why so many teams have fireworks after games or home run?<\/p>\n

Grilling out seems like a relatively benign activity (except for the cow that gave its life). But really examine it. A man using yet another extension of himself to poke and prod at something that never even had the opportunity to say no.<\/p>\n

Of course, he can only grill out after he\u2019s placated his troglodyte need to smother his lawn in bee colony-destroying pesticides and then destroy it with an emissions-spewing mower. All for the sake of satisfying his id.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps we can talk about the beauty of marriage. Or, as some call it, a contract with man and his property. Or do you really still believe that an engagement ring is steeped in loving, Christian tradition<\/a>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems so innocent, but as Brian Willett warns us, it’s the Patriarchy and we’re soaking in it: Take baseball and fireworks. A symbol of phallic expression and a symbol of phallic completion. Ever wonder why so many teams have fireworks after games or home run? Grilling out seems like a relatively benign activity (except […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[262,463],"class_list":["post-27027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-culture","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-71V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27028,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027\/revisions\/27028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}