After the theoretical revision over the discourses of domain, we find ourselves under a paradoxical situation, we are more capable of turning these problems to concepts but nonetheless we continue to reproduce them with our practices. We have achieved high theoretical aims, but custom still wins us. Our behaviours perpetuate the conditions of masculine domain in which our lives take place. In this stage the weak (new) masculine subject appears as a new actor.
Therefore it seems urgent to develop a careful identification of such
behaviours and customs. Paternalism, especially if it is subtle, appears
as one of the most common practices in the establishment of domain-submission
relationships. Capable of softly impregnating our lives with a constant
violence, paternalism instals itself in the hell of nearness, of familiarity
and always seetles down a hierarchical system of reciprocal dependency
where both actors are condemned to play their role.
The
intimate violence of paternalism
DV projection 8 filmstills loop secuence
Subtitled, no sound
2002