V (formerly Eve Ensler) writes:

For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot.

The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy.

Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the progress we have made on all fronts: women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights etc.

It has birthed an authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity. It has consolidated the billionaire class who are driven by the mindset summed up in the slogan “move fast and break things.” Or, one might say, grab things, rape things.

Psychopatriarchy is found in the 120 people who own more money than half the population on earth, in the systems of oppression, surveillance and violence which become more and more sophisticated and widespread, in the few mainly white men with extreme wealth and power who are now merged with the government and own the systems of communication, AI, police or state militias like ICE.

Psychopatriarchy is a sanctioning of extreme hatred and violence against women from the top, many of whom are rapists, batterers, pedophiles and abusers or men who openly support them.

The president of the US is a civilly adjudicated sex abuser and has not only flippantly dismissed allegations of sexual violence made against others in his orbit, but made it fashionable and popular attitude for the men in his delusional cult. [Continue reading…]