In
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer describes general perception of the female as "infantilised or
pedomorphic"
and the male as "aged or
gerontomorphic"*.
*
That is, the woman, as a rule, must carry childlike traits into her adulthood to be a
woman. The ideal woman under patriarchy is petite, hairless, obedient, where the man (ideal or not) is the inherent leader by virtue of being her evolutionary superior.
To stray from this, is to not be a woman.
There are arguments to be made that heterosexuality under patriarchy is paedophilic in nature, if not explicitly paedophilic, as women under patriarchy are expected to be subservient emulations of children. Not to mention how many men choose to rape, date, and marry children and teenagers.
Amy is stupid, ditsy, referred to as a child who needs to grow up. She is ordered around, lusted after, violated. She is the child-woman, wife-daughter that patriarchy holds in esteem. And her annoying, asshole, loser husband gets to be not only a person in his own right, but the hero.
Whatever. Into my
on: radical feminism list you go.