I love Sociology.

I was on the verge of tears. It just ruined my whole day. No, no, Sociology didn’t ruin my day, patriarchal ideology did.

We were told to bring magazine cut-outs, pictures, videos, texts, anything that portrayed women in an empowering or, in contrast, a subordinate role.

A friend of mine brought a women’s health magazine. We scanned it briefly, looked pretty normal. Then we put on our sociologist thinking caps and looked at it critically.

The first page, a business woman. We thought, oh, empowering role. What we failed to notice was that, despite her smart outfit, she was leaning back clumsily on a sofa, talking on the phone. Which implies that women are chatty and at home and have nothing better to do.

We looked at several pictures. Almost always, the male in the picture was captured in full (and fully clothed, at that) while the female was always slightly out of the shot (and always almost half naked). WHY?

And then we came across THE article, the one that will forever piss me off.

VAGINAL TIGHTENING SURGERY. ‘To tighten the vaginal muscles for maximum pleasure.’

“I feel like a woman now.”

“I did this for myself, because I love my husband.”

You did it for yourself? Fucking bull. All I could say after that was GO FUCKING DIE.

What are they publishing these days? Is this really all that matters?

We read another piece of text.

“How to be the perfect wife.”

One of the tips was to always have dinner ready when he came home.

Another one was to never question him, because he was ‘tired after a long day of work’.

Yet another was this, and this one pissed me off the most: “Whatever you have to say, wait and listen to him first, because what he has to say is more important.”

WHAT.

EXCUSE ME.

Ugh.

I don’t hate men, I just hate patriarchy. I hate the people who publish such articles. STOP BRAINWASHING US, OK, NOT ALL OF US TAKE SOCIOLOGY AND HENCE NOT ALL OF US CAN SEE PAST YOUR FUCKING SCHEMING WAYS. GO FUCKING DIE IN A RAGING FIRE, I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING.