Dominator Culture
a model of culture and human relations based on hierarchy, ranking, power, and control. masculinity is equated with control, conquest, and violence: men dominating women and children.
opposite to partnership culture.
in a domination system…
humans are flawed and dangerous.
difference is equated with superiority or inferiority.
power is used to control and destroy through hierarchies of domination.
compet-tion means “dog eat dog”; “every man for himself”.
people cooperate to dominate others.
huge gaps between haves and have-nots
nature is a resource to be dominated, depleted and polluted.
morality of insensitivity, control, and coercion.
(based on the center for partnership studies’ summary of points from riane eisler’s _the power of partnership_ and david korten’s _the great turning_)
dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our ident-ty is defined by the will to dominate and control others. we are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. in actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers but that males are more able to realize the predator role. in the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. when culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.
(bell hooks)
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