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Artificial Stupidity
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Calling a man an animal is a compliment to the man and an insult to the animal.
Because, in nature, there is no animal that inflicts violence on its female.
They say that artificial intelligence will dominate everything. Artificial intelligence might do everything but it cannot inflict violence on women.
Because violence against women has nothing to do with intelligence.
Artificial stupidity has to be invented for violence against women.
Throughout human history, there is only one period when humans did not inflict violence on one another, that is, when men did not commit violence against women. Some call it the hunter-gatherer society, others name it primitive communal society...
This period was characterized by the absence of a concept of ownership. We can draw the following conclusion from this:
"Property is the basis of violence against women."
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Our ancestors were matriarchal when they were on horseback. Woman was the power and man was a supplement to it... We were nomads, we did not own any property.
There was no money, but barter...
It was when our ancestors dismounted from the horse... It was when they came to own property and issued money... Then, they pushed women into the background...
In other words, pushing women into the background when we come into money and own property is for us an ancestral sport, so to say.
Let's spread the news to those who ask, "Why do men, who come into money, first change their cars and then their wives?".
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And, now, let's turn to gender-based discrimination... Let's first look at which animals we have named differently... The male of chicken is rooster... The male of sheep is ram... The male of cow is ox... The female of human is woman-girl...
However, we were not really interested in the sex of a sparrow, we just called it sparrow... And the lion, come on, the mighty lion... In Turkish both the female and the male is called a lion...
Why is that the case? Because capitalism attaches neither a special importance nor a special name to the gender that it cannot use or exploit... Capitalism is a male system.
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In capitalism, violence against women is not about education, but about position. A man who sits in his chair at the coffeehouse on Sundays cannot inflict harassment or violence on a woman who sits in the chair of a director general in his workplace...
Can we imagine a male employee, who works in the same workplace with [the famous businesswomen] Güler Sabancı or Leyla Alaton, subjecting them to mobbing, harassment or violence? No, we cannot.
Because, in capitalism, the limits of thought on this subject are determined by the seat, the position that one occupies. The ones who subject women to mobbing or harassment draw their strength from the seats they occupy as much as masculinity. The magnitude of violence is directly proportional to the grandness of the title and wealth. The opposite is the exception.
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We called capitalism every name in the book but were the previous eras any better?
There are two absolute things that are passed down from father to son: One is monarchy... And the other is dick.
That is why monarchy is something like a dick...
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Let's conclude with the lyrics of a song by the master folk singer Neşet Ertaş:
"Kadınlar insandır, biz erkekler ise insanoğlu": Woman is human, and we men are the sons of humans.* (MCS/ŞA/APA/SD/IG)
[*In Turkish human is insan and humankind/mankind is insanoğlu which means "son of human".]
* Images: Kemal Gökhan Gürses