# On 'Woman as Other'  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jane Clare Jones]] - Full Title: On 'Woman as Other' - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The author argues that in patriarchal society, women are often seen as "the Other," defined in relation to men rather than as independent individuals. This projection of women as passive and emotional supports male power while undermining women's agency and rights. The author emphasizes that women should maintain their own perspectives and analyses of oppression, rather than conforming to male interests or demands. - URL: https://culturewarblues.substack.com/p/on-woman-as-other - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > So lastly, to place this discussion back in the wider project of this blog, I want to emphasise that the narcissistic, patriarchal structure of trans ideology is *just one side* of that mechanism as it is playing out in the wider culture war, and that patriarchal narcissism is also, fundamentally, the structure of tribal identitarianism that is generating the [mirror image mechanism of the war at large](https://culturewarblues.substack.com/p/against-identitarianism). The populist right / MAGA form of right-wing identitarianism might be happy to recognise that women are female, but it will use that knowledge to push us back into our role as a reproductive and domestic resource, while the ‘progressive’ / trans ideological form of identitarianism will redefine us as a patriarchal projection, and demand that we erase our material reality to serve as a resource for that projection, irrespective of any harms we incur in the process, and with no regard for our own rights to self-definition or expression of our own political interests. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jtnx331e5sys1a3hnm1sjdkq))