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Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman

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How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?

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i still hear it.

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Yep. Still hate it, too.

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Notes: 3816 1/24/12 — 6:24am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoyDayFHOl01 Filed under: #barbara alice mann  #iroquois  #life isn't fair  #white supremacy  #old testament republicans 
 
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    I disagree that this is patriarchal vs. matriarchal, though. I think this is entitled jackass approach vs. non-lazy...
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