This is vital. Recent comments by Donald Trump and the defence of him by Nigel Farage shows us the reality of the situation. The fact that women are paid less than men, that party time work is predominately female and that child care is not taken seriously by the state are the structural reasons that women do not achieve pay equality. However the unconscious reasons that maintain this inequality lay in this "locker room" mentality, the outlook of men like Trump and Farage.It maintains itself because of the nature of society, stretching back over two thousand years. In Hunting and gathering societies, where property is owned by the group, where sexuality is separate from property and ownership the genders are equal/t is no accident that the domestication of animals, the creation of slavery and the creation of modern gender roles date from the same time. Even the term wedded implies ownership and it is most interesting that as we moved ever closer to monotheism in religion, we saw the rise of the sky fathers and the fall of the goddesses . How apt at this moment a billionaire buffoon bully, and a public school educated stockbroker can excuse such behaviour. How apt was the quote of Nietzsche on an individuals sexuality “All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept ‘impure” is the essential crime against Life— against the Holy Spirit of Life and finally this says everything about them both Farage and Trump“The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. “
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